Anna Gardner Goodwin

Anna Gardner Goodwin (October 1874 – 1959) was a Black American composer of classical music. Early life Anna Gardner was born in Augusta, Georgia, in 1874 to Daniel and Anna Gardner. Daniel Gardner was remembered as “the March King of Augusta”, a cornet player who ran a Sunday afternoon concert series for Black Augustans. “To dance and watch my father blow his cornet with such enthusiasm created within me a desire to make music,” Anna Gardner Goodwin wrote. Personal life and legacy In 1895, Anna Gardner married the Rev. George A. Goodwin, a professor of theology at Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia. Together they had four children: a son, George Jr., and three daughters: Janie, Anna, and Eunice. In summer 1913, Mrs. Goodwin earned a scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania to study the “method and supervision of public-school sic music” in the summer of 1913. Her granddaughter, Jane Alexander Robinson, became one of the founders of the Michigan Association of Black Psychologists. Jane’s grandsons, David E. Robinson III and Richard Robinson, both became professional musicians and composers. Anna Gardner Goodwin’s great-grandson, Richard Robinson, became a full member of the D