Revised Anne Gamble Kennedy article
Anne Gamble Kennedy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Anne Gamble Kennedy Anne Gamble Kennedy (25 September 1920 – 11 June 2001) was an American classical pianist , piano professor, and accompanist for the Fisk Jubilee Singers of Nashville, Tennessee . Contents [ hide ] 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Selected discography 4 Notes Early life Anne Lucille Gamble was born in Charleston, West Virginia to Dr. Henry Floyd Gamble and the former Nina Hortense Clinton [1] . She was the younger of two children born to that union. She also had two older step-siblings, Katherine Lee Gamble and Henry Floyd Gamble, Jr. One of the first African-American graduates of the Yale Medical School , Henry Gamble had to "pass" for white in order to complete his education. Anne was eleven years old when her father was killed in a car accident in 1932. Dr. Gamble’s mother had been a slave on the Howard’s Neck Plantation in Goochland County, Virginia