Weeksville Heritage Center
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The Weeksville Heritage Center is a historic site on Buffalo Avenue between St. Marks Avenue and Bergen Street in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City. It is dedicated to the preservation of Weeksvi
Hunterfly Road House, August 2009
Image from exhibit at Weeksville Heritage Center about the newspaper publication, The Freedman's Torchlight, published by the African Civilization Society
Exhibition artwork in Weeksville lobby - side left view
Joan Bacchus Maynard 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
Weeksville Heritage Center
…sites of pre-Civil War African-American communities. Founding members of the preservation group were James Hurley, Dewey Harley, Dolores McCullough, Joan Maynard, and Patricia Johnson. It was founded as the Society for the Preservation of Weeksville and Bedford Stuyvesant in 1970, and then the Weeksville Heritage…
Maynard c. 1977