Ida B. Wells and Her Crusade for Racial Justice The abolition of slavery after the Civil War became the foundation for Ida B. Wells’s life work as a teacher, journalist, anti-lynching activist, community organizer, and woman suffragist. Grades 11, 12, 9, 10HistoryDescriptive Text http://www.crf-usa.org/images/pdf/Ida-B-Wells.pdf