--- title: Google Doodle Honors Suffragist, Activist Alice Paul description: Google's latest Doodle honors women's rights activist Alice Paul, who was born on Jan. 11, 1985 canonical: https://time.com/4175016/google-doodle-alice-paul/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-11T15:58:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:28:31.539Z og:title: New Google Doodle Honors Suffragist Alice Paul og:description: On what would have been her 131st birthday og:url: https://time.com/4175016/google-doodle-alice-paul/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt14f2c1b0c1f8ccba/6988786fcd1bba07256fee04/screen-shot-2016-01-11-at-9-47-38-am.png?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2016-01-11 at 9.47.38 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: New Google Doodle Honors Suffragist Alice Paul twitter:description: On what would have been her 131st birthday twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt14f2c1b0c1f8ccba/6988786fcd1bba07256fee04/screen-shot-2016-01-11-at-9-47-38-am.png?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # New Google Doodle Honors American Suffragist Alice Paul ## Video: How Google Makes its Doodles [Watch (HLS stream): How Google Makes its Doodles](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/upF0qp1E.m3u8) (3:23)  _Published 2018-07-07. Our videographer went to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to meet some of the designers and coders who create the special, clever variations on the Google.com logo known as_ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jan 11, 2016 3:58 PM UTC  Google by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jan 11, 2016 3:58 PM UTC Google’s latest Doodle honors women’s rights activist Alice Paul, who was born on Jan. 11, 1885\. The image depicts Paul holding up a sign that reads “Deeds not words.” In the background, other women hold a sign that reads “Votes for women.” [**MORE:** ](http://time.com/4152553/google-doodles-doodler-job/)[What It’s Really Like To Be a Google Doodler](http://time.com/4152553/google-doodles-doodler-job/) Paul was born into a Quaker family in New Jersey and was a founding member of the National Women’s Party. She used tactics of civil disobedience that she’d learned while working with the [suffragist movement in Britain](http://time.com/4084759/how-british-suffragettes-radicalized-american-women/). Today, she’s [regarded ](http://www.sewallbelmont.org/learn/who-is-alice-paul/)as “the architect of some of the most outstanding political achievements of the 20th century.” Some [have argued ](http://time.com/3928988/amity-shlaes-10-bill-alice-paul/)that Paul should be the woman on the newly redesigned $10 bill. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4175016/google-doodle-alice-paul/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4175016/google-doodle-alice-paul/"},"headline":"New Google Doodle Honors American Suffragist Alice Paul","datePublished":"2016-01-11T15:58:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:28:31.539Z","description":"On what would have been her 131st birthday","url":"https://time.com/4175016/google-doodle-alice-paul/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt14f2c1b0c1f8ccba/6988786fcd1bba07256fee04/screen-shot-2016-01-11-at-9-47-38-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt14f2c1b0c1f8ccba/6988786fcd1bba07256fee04/screen-shot-2016-01-11-at-9-47-38-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2016-01-11 at 9.47.38 AM","caption":"","creditText":"Google","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4175016/google-doodle-alice-paul/","name":"New Google Doodle Honors American Suffragist Alice Paul"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"How Google Makes its Doodles","description":"Our videographer went to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to meet some of the designers and coders who create the special, clever variations on the Google.com logo known as","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/upF0qp1E/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2018-07-07T16:09:57.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/upF0qp1E.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4175016/google-doodle-alice-paul/","duration":"PT3M23S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4175016/google-doodle-alice-paul/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```