Ohr O’-Keefe Museum offered free entry in celebration of MLK
Ohr O’Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi honored MLK by allowing free entry for guests.
While at the museum, guests were encouraged to check out the Pleasant Reed Interpretive Center which was the first building on the museum’s campus.
The center provides an opportunity to understand how African-American families lived in Biloxi during the early 20th Century.
Pleasant Reed was a former slave in Mississippi, who moved with his family to Biloxi after the Civil War. Reed worked as a laborer and carpenter. Executive Director David Houston said, “It is very important for us to refresh this project. We currently have a city within a city which is also about Division Street here and a very important documentation about the wade in civil disobedience protest that help lead to the integration of the city.”
The Pleasant Reed Interpretive Center is a reconstruction of the original house built by Pleasant Reed during the 1880s and 1890s. The museum will begin a new initiative that will document ‘Black Main Street.’
