Current Exhibitions
The Pleasant Reed Family
Exhibition located at the Pleasant Reed Interpretive Center on the Ohr-O'Keefe Campus
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Brooch with miniature photographic portraits |
Pleasant married Georgia Anna Harris in 1884, and they were known to their family and friends by the nicknames of “Plez” and “Georgie”. Emanuel, the first of their five children, was born
in 1886. Receipts show that the couple rented housing during the first years of their marriage. In May of 1887 the Reeds contracted with Jacob Elmer, a local merchant and developer, in the purchase of a small lot of land on Elmer Street. Benjamin Reed also bought property on Elmer Street in 1887, the same year that his son Pleasant began to build. Over the next four years, Pleasant Reed paid for the purchase of his land. By 1891, Reed retired his debt to Elmer in part by exchanging labor for cash. Families of other ethnic and religious backgrounds joined the Reeds on Elmer Street during this period, making it a diverse, multi-racial neighborhood.
Native Guard: A Photographic History
of Ship Island's African American Regiment
Exhibition located at the Pleasant Reed Interpretive Center on the Ohr-O'Keefe Campus
Ohr-O'Keefe Native Guard Exhibit On Loan to African American Military Museum in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
The Native Guard: A Photographic History of Ship Island's African American Regiment will be shown at the African American Military History Museum in Hattiesburg, Mississippi from February 1, 2010-February 28, 2010.
"...Thank God it hath been my fortune to be a participant in the grand idea of proclaiming freedom to this much abused & tortured race. Thank God my Regiment an African one, that I have been permitted to assemble them under the banner of freedom to do and die for their country & liberty—The 2d Louisiana Regiment of Native Guards will yet have a name in history..."
The Civil War Diary of Colonel Nathan W. Daniels
Sunday, March 29th 1863
The Native Guard: A Photographic History of Ship Island's African American Regiment features original photographs from the collection of C.P.(Kitty) Weaver of Massachusetts and Isiah Edwards of Long Beach, Mississippi.
Excerpts from Colonel Nathan W. Daniels Diary are reprinted from: C.P. Weaver, editor. Thank God My Regiment an African One: The Civil War Diary of Colonel Nathan W. Daniels. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998.
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