1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Alice Paul Congressional Gold Medal Act . 2. Findings The Congress finds as follows: (1) Alice Paul was born on January 11, 1885, in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, and died on July 9, 1977. (2) Alice Paul dedicated her life to securing suffrage and equal rights for all women and, as founder of the National Woman’s Party, she was instrumental in the passage of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution. (3) Alice Paul and the National Woman’s Party were the first group ever to picket the White House. (4) While President Woodrow Wilson trumpeted America’s values of democracy abroad during World War I, Alice Paul was dedicated to reminding the President that not all Americans enjoyed democracy at home. (5) Alice Paul used nonviolent civil disobedience to bring national attention to the women’s suffrage movement, such as the hunger strike she undertook when she was sentenced to jail in October 1917, for her demonstrations. (6) Alice Paul’s courage inspired thousands of women to join the women’s suffrage movement. (7) Instead of patiently waiting for States to grant women suffrage, Alice Paul mobilized an entire generation of women to pressure the United States Congress and the President to give all women in America the right to vote. (8) Alice Paul lobbied Congress to include gender in civil rights bills and was successful in including sex discrimination in title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. (9) Alice Paul sought equal rights for women all over the world, not just Americans and, as a means of pursuing this goal, founded the World Party for Equal Rights for Women in the 1930s. (10) Alice Paul was instrumental in the placement of a passage on gender equality in the preamble of the United Nations Charter. (11) Few people have played a greater role in shaping the history of the United States than Alice Paul. (12) Alice Paul is an example to all Americans of what one person can do to make a difference for millions of people. 3. Congressional Gold Medal (a)