About the Authors
Helen Maria Chesnutt (1880-1969)
Born in 1880 in Fayetteville, NC, Chesnutt's father was a well-known novelist, Charles Chesnutt. Chesnutt attended Smith College in Massachusetts as one of the only Black students attending at the time. Graduating with a B.A. from Smith, she would go on to earn her M.A. in Latin from Columbia University. She taught Latin for many years at Central High School in Cleveland, OH, with the famous poet Langston Hughes as one of her students.
Together with Olivenbaum and Rosebaugh, she authored this book "The Road to Latin", published in 1932. She was elected to the Executive Committee of the American Philological Association in 1920. As a woman of color in the field of Classics, her voice is a powerful one and her textbook gives a unique perspective into learning Latin! |