Maynard was a cover artist for
The Crisis magazine, the official magazine of the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from the
Bank Street College of Education. In 1966, Maynard (as Joan Bacchus) was a writer and artist for the
Golden Legacy comic series started by
Bertram Fitzgerald. She worked with
Tom Feelings on the
Saga of Harriet Tubman volume. She also wrote and pencilled issues about
Matthew Henson,
Joseph Cinqué, and
La Amistad mutiny.
Weeksville Weeksville was a community of escaped slaves and free blacks which was founded in the 1830s. The free blacks owned property, which made black males eligible to vote. The community lasted for nearly a century. Members of the founding grassroots preservation group were Maynard, James Hurley, Dewey Harley, Dolores McCullough, and Patricia Johnson. Maynard later became the director of the Society for the Preservation of Weeksville and Bedford Stuyvesant. It later became
Weeksville Heritage Center. She was involved in the preservation of Weeksville for over 25 years, to restore the legacy which was missing from maps of the area. Maynard and Gwen Cottman co-authored and published
Weeksville, Then & Now: The Search to Discover, the Effort to Preserve, Memories of Self in Brooklyn, New York. From 1972 to 1974, Maynard was President of the Society of the Preservation of Weeksville and Bedford Stuyvesant. From 1974 to 1999, she was Executive Director of the Weeksville Heritage Society. In October 2017, Brooklyn City Councilman
Robert Cornegy and Weeksville trustees named a block of Buffalo Avenue in honor the legacy of Maynard. ==Awards==