Joan Bacchus Maynard (née Cooper; August 29, 1928 − January 22, 2006) was an American artist, author, community organizer, and preservationist. She was one of the founding members of a late 1960s grassroots group to preserve the legacy of Weeksville, a pre-Civil War African American community in Brooklyn, New York.
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29 August 1928 Brooklyn, New York
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Died |
22 January 2006 (aged 77)
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Zodiac | Virgo |
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