Susan B. Anthony

The women's rights movement had grown in the 1850s, but lost support and enthusiasm by the Civil War, in which after the 14th and 15th Amendments were made, defining citizenship, and giving black men the right to vote.  Born in 1820, Susan B. Anthony was an abolitionist who dedicated her life to the women's suffrage movement.
Anthony and her family lived in Rochester, where she was a teacher at a girls school.  Her family was part of the abolitionist movement, and she helped slaves escape to freedom through the Underground Railroad.  Due to her beliefs and actions, Anthony encountered much opposition such as mobs, threats, and being hung in effigy (model of the person). In 1852 Anthony began to campaign for woman's suffrage, equal pay.  In 1856 she joined the American Anti Slavery Society where she continued to work for the cause until the start of the Civil War.
In Rochester, Anthony was the teacher of a girl's school.  In 1852, she and Elizabeth Stanton formed the Women's New York State Temperance Society, which later also began to focus on woman's suffrage and equal rights. In 1866 she and Stanton formed the Women's National Loyal League which sought to end the Civil War and abolish slavery which later disbanded after the war.  She later joined the American Equal Rights Association (AERA) where she supported both black and women's suffrage, both which were later shot down in Kansas by popular vote. After the 15th Amendment granted blacks the right to vote, the AERA refused to support a 16th Amendment giving the same right to women, causing both Anthony and Stanton to leave and form the Nation Women's Suffrage Association, which advocated suffrage, easier divorce, and the end of discrimination in employment and pay.
In the 1870's she campaigned within 26 states and gained 10,000 signatures, which were later dismissed by Congress. She became president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1892 due to Stanton's retirement and retired in 1900 at the age of 80.  Anthony died in 1906.
Overall, Anthony was part of several important movements and events in American history.  When women got the vote in 1920 due to the 19th Amendment, it also became known as the Susan B. Anthony movement.  The flapper movement in the 1920's in which women became free and less bound to "ladylike" constraints can be attributed to their recently gained right to vote.
Sources:
http://www.biography.com/people/susan-b-anthony-194905#womens-right-to-vote
https://susanbanthonyhouse.org/her-story/biography.php
http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/susan-b-anthony-believed-black-humanity