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For Immediate Release

Declarations of Independence:
National Women's Rights Conventions, 1850-1860

SENECA FALLS - Women’s Rights NHP and the Worcester (Mass.) Women’s History Project proudly announce the opening of the new exhibit, “Declarations of Independence: National Women’s Rights Conventions, 1850-1860,” on July 4, 2001, 10 a.m. at the park visitor center, 136 Fall Street, Seneca Falls, NY. The exhibit features a traveling section from the Worcester Women’s History Project about the First National Women’s Rights Convention, held in Worcester in 1850. Panels on the conventions up to the beginning of the Civil War complete the exhibits.

Each convention used the Declaration of Independence to argue for more rights
for women. In celebration of the 225th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a mass reading of the Declaration of Independence, led by Doris
Wolf, and a talk by Dr. Carolyn Howe, President of the Worcester Women’s History
Project and Associate Professor of Sociology at College of the Holy Cross,
Worcester, MA will precede the opening. A reception will follow.

Free copies of Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United
States will be given away to the first 150 attendees.

For more information contact the park at 568-0024.

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