News Release

Women's Rights National Historical Park Announces Convention Days 2019: July 19-21

Date: July 3, 2019
Contact: Catherine Bragaw, 304-491-6265

SENECA FALLS, NY – Women’s Rights National Historical Park (NHP) is pleased to announce Convention Days 2019, July 19 – 21 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. each day.

The Convention Day theme “Back to our Roots,” focuses on the early days of the Women’s Rights Movement. This inspirational program explores the early movement, its leaders and the impact those roots continue to have on women’s rights today. This year’s event sets the scene for the upcoming 2020 centennial of women’s right to vote ratified by the 19th Amendment in 1920.  

On July 20 at 10:30 a.m. the event opens with the Welcome Ceremony, followed by Women’s Rights NHP’s official kick-off of the Centennial of the 19th Amendment. The 1848 convention called for women’s right to vote but it took another 72 years before it was achieved. On August 26, 1920 the 19th Amendment became part of the U.S. Constitution and the right to vote in the U.S. could no longer be denied on the basis of gender. The struggle for universal suffrage is a complex history interwoven throughout the American story. As the nation approaches the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, the National Park Service is preparing to commemorate and tell the story of this history and its legacy.

Convention Days has been a signature event in Seneca Falls for many years. This annual event allows visitors to engage with women’s history focusing on the revolutionary 1848 Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention through art, story telling, speakers, and special programming. Speakers include scholars and authors Judith Wellman, Sally Roesch Wagner, Susan Goodier, and Seneca County Historian Walter Gable, in addition to Elizabeth Cady Stanton descendant Coline Jenkins.

Convention Days activity will occur throughout Seneca Falls. Be sure to check out the entire schedule and other community museums for special events. We look forward to a fun-filled weekend- rain or shine. Public parking is available throughout town and accessibility parking will be available behind the Women’s Rights NHP Visitor Center. 

Interested in volunteering for this event? Contact Denise DeLucia at 315-568-2991 x3004# or e-mail us. 

Women’s Rights National Historical Park is open daily from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 pm. For more information, please visit the park’s website at www.nps.gov/wori or call [phone].

ABOUT THE PARK: Women’s Rights National Historical Park preserves and interprets for the education, inspiration and benefit of present and future generations, the nationally significant historical and cultural sites, structures and events associated with the struggle for equal rights for women. Follow us on Facebook (@WomensRightsNPS), Twitter (#WomensRightsNPS) and Instagram (WomensRightsNPS).For more information, visit the Park’s website at www.nps.gov/wori