Title: Anna Garder Goodwin papers, 1906-2006
Arrangement
The papers are arranged in two series.
Series 1, Anna Gardner Goodwin, 1906-2004
This series contains Goodwin’s handwritten biography, other biographical material, a certificate of copyright registration for her composition “We’ve Got to Win This War, and her musical scores.
Series 2, Goodwin Family, 1906-2006
This series contains material related to the Goodwin family, including articles about her husband, a family tree, biographical information about her great grandchildren (double bassist Rick Allen Robinson and composer David E. Robinson), musical scores, and photographs.
Abstract
Anna Gardner Goodwin (1874-1959) was an African American composer of classical music. Her compositions include “Adelene” and “Freedom to All March.” The Anna Garner Goodwin papers span from 1909 to 2006 and contain biographical and genealogical documents, musical scores, material related to her family, and photographs.
Administrative/Biographical History
Anna Gardner Goodwin (1874-1959) was an African American composer of classical music. Goodwind was born in Augusta, Georgia, and married George Goodwin, a reverend and theology professor at Morehouse College, in July 1895. Goodwin published her first composition, “Adelene,” in 1909. She attended the Paine Institute in Augusta, and earned a scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania to study the “method and supervision of public school music” in the summer of 1913. Goodwind’s husband died in 1914, and three years later, Anna and her sister, Janie, moved to Chicago, Illinois. Goodwin’s last composition, “Freedom to All March,” was performed by the Cicero Band in 1956 to commemorate the Cicero (Illinois) race riots of 1951. Goodwin died in 1959.
