Ransby's academic work has featured biographies of 20th-century black women activists
Ella Baker and
Eslanda Robeson. In contemporary politics, she has been executive director of a
non-profit organization.[1] Her daughter Asha Rosa Ransby-Sporn is as of 2021 a national organizing co-chair of the non-profit youth organization
BYP100.[13][14]
^Clarke, Cheryl (September 2006). "Book ReviewElla Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision. By Barbara Ransby. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 32 (1): 283–285.
doi:
10.1086/505545.
ISSN0097-9740.
S2CID151624949.
^Payne, Charles; Ransby, Barbara (2004). "Review of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement. A Radical Democratic Vision, RansbyBarbara". Southern Cultures. 10 (3): 106–108.
doi:
10.1353/scu.2004.0038.
JSTOR26390902.
S2CID144749180.
^Esty, Amos (2003). "Review of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision". The North Carolina Historical Review. 80 (4): 503–504.
JSTOR23522864.
^Tate, Gayle T. (January 2004). "Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision". The Journal of African American History. 89 (1): 80–82.
doi:
10.2307/4134048.
ISSN1548-1867.
JSTOR4134048.
^Fleming, Cynthia Griggs (2004). "Review of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision". The Journal of Southern History. 70 (4): 966–967.
doi:
10.2307/27648630.
JSTOR27648630.
^Nasstrom, Kathryn L. (September 1, 2004). "Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision. By Barbara Ransby. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xxii, 470 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2778-9.)". Journal of American History. 91 (2): 708.
doi:
10.2307/3660840.
ISSN0021-8723.
JSTOR3660840.
^Washington, Mary Helen (2013). Ransby, Barbara (ed.). "Not Just the Wife of Her Husband". The Women's Review of Books. 30 (5): 3–5.
JSTOR24430489.
^Maurel, Chloé (2014). "Review of Eslanda : The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson". Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'Histoire (123): 250–251.
JSTOR24673925.