the soldiers died trying to give france back their freedom. i have never had americans tell me this was a waste of money. americans have told me this is what they want to see their taxpayer money go to. none of these men and women got , oree their son get married sit on a rocking chair on their front porch and die of old age. these people did not do this. they died at a young age for their brothers and sisters around them. when they died, they gave their life to someone else. let's not forget them. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] a onceue built was fighting community located right outside of lake charles.

it is today surrounded by a chemical manufacturing company. find out why so many presidents have left and what one -- what one company is doing to preserve its history. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] >> the once thriving african american community of mossville is disappearing as they can industry moves in and long-term residents move out. residentd-generation takes our cameras on a tour of his neighborhood and explains an effort to preserve the memories. ruce: our family was such a close knit family. my grandmother lived across the street. my sister used to live behind i grandmother.

my mother had a sister who lived next door. my older sister lived around the corner and i next oldest sister lived in the back. you could come and go to the back door. your mom was home and needed a cup of sugar, you would walk to the neighbor. i need some flour, quick. you would walk in their kitchen and go back home. nottaught me trust, and doing anything you weren't supposed to. this was a beautiful, wonderful community. school.amily, church, jobs. began to get better it showed them it could be better in the future for the next generation.

is a 150-year-old african-american community that was established by free the slaves. was actually formed right around 1865, when the white settlers there freed their slaves. about that time, the government started the homestead act, which would give citizens 168 acres acres andmule -- 160 a mule. if you attended the land three or four years, it became yours. the community began to grow from there. ruce: this was called to be

same thing as another meaning for a pig or a hog. when people came here, there were a lot of wild pigs or hogs. in, they changed the name to mossville. >> as the community began to grow, other descendents of the began getting more gentrified. the post office was established. there were grocery stores and movie theaters. there were some nightclubs. all the comforts of a community. is anime, the area industrial area.

we have a number of large industry. industry began to expand. and property. -- it became more of an area.rial interviewer: when did people start moving out of the community? out washe first eye probably about 20 years ago. a lot of this history started in first thisorhood,

place was small, with homes. this was one of the first buyouts that the refineries did. the development you see recently has happened in the last five years. in 2013 toame in start the buyout. basis youa volunteer could leave the state or accept the buyout that conoco offered.

interviewer: how many companies are operating around this area ? ppg -- inoco-phillips, about 15. oferviewer: what are most them making? ppg -- they are paying city service the same as gas and oil. they are a chemical company. they are in the process of building a chemical plant. a lot of products went into finalthat are ultimately

products of procter and gamble and people like that. andgs like liquid tide dishwashing liquids and powders. what the company felt needed to be done was to which rests the -- address the needs of the community. we went to the mossville community leadership, which was the mossville environmental action now group. we did a community needs assessment. one of the things that was said was, give us the opportunity to move. was one of the first to move. i never wanted to stand in the way of progress.

i wanted to be a help to generations to come. i was living in a 40-year-old home, no kids. what i was getting offered was much more than what it was worth. i did not want to fight progress. programroperty purchase -- they paid a premium for properties in the mossville area . residences would be looked at by trained appraisers.

average teh two -- the two highest appraisals out of three. give an offer that was plus a 60%ed value, premium. if it was less than $100,000, we would assign a value of $100,000 plus 60% of the appraised value. worthr property was only $50,000, you would be assigned a ,alue of $100,000, plus 60% be $30,000. we would try and position the residents in mossville to have a good experience in the move if they decided.

bruce: this was trying to be neighborly. were going to offer you an opportunity to leave. some of the properties stayed vacant. i am not sure what they are going to do with it. was, they wanted to be neighborly. you could see where the they did not want to just come in and not be neighborly. this is what is left after our home i has been here for over 70 or 80 years -- after our home

has been here for over 70 or 80 years. when i lived here with my mother and father, i walked here almost every day to school. i was born and raised here. life.d most of my we are approaching the mount zion baptist church, one of the oldest in the parish. this has been your over 160 years. original, you may see some pictures of the original church. this church was built at least 60 years ago.

my parents are buried here. my family plots are back in the back, my mother, fathers, sisters and grandparents. -- father, sisters and grandparents. >> a number of people decided not to move. they loved their community and the.net the hassle of moving. it is really individually-driven. interviewer: why did some people choose to stay? the love they had. some people would have stayed if the conditions would have allowed us.

a lot of people had the you were not, really sure what is going to happen or go on. most of this land here is braxton's land. one of the great granddaughters still lives on the property. the empowerment process meant we had to have a lot of toversations that led up them accepting and moving and so forth. the first president to sign up youesident to sign-up said,

should build a museum. it's a unique place. >> i was having lunch with the plant manager. part of the mission of the museum is to preserve the unique thisre and history of area, which certainly included mossville. i asked, do you have any plans to preserve the history that is now disappearing? he asked me what i would do. i told him. i wrote a proposal and here we are. the first thing you would see when you walk in would be this tombstone. we would anchor it with that. we would go with the names of the nine founding families. we would have pictures under each name that the people

provided us to show descendents. and we get more every day. say, iwill come in and have a picture of this. we will happily take anything we can get. this was a 100-year-old community. it seemed topart, exist because of modern expansion. preservethwhile to this history, so that people and children coming later will know there was a place one time where the wife was just like it was. to beould want mossville

as a place of ambitious ancestors that laid the groundwork to be a good community. i cities tour staff recently traveled to lake charles, louisiana, to learn more about its rich history. are watching american history television, all weekend, every weekend, on c-span3. cracks american history television is on c-span, every weekend. the civil war, and more. here is a clip from the recent program.

>> henry ford is a very shrewd guy. factories inis order to sell a car and used his factories almost as an advertising tool. he was looking to expose the machinery. there is an aerial photograph of the early 20's of the highland parkway. you can see the plateglass windows there. the actual, physical design is dictated by marketing considerations. the model atroduced

to be produced, the ford hired a greatency artist to photograph not the car, but the factory. times, in the time of my art factories -- are substitutes for religious expression. famous of these photographs of the river. this is used in advertising. you want this to be represented by the factory, ok? you can watch this and other programs on her website, where

all of our video is archived. flex next, matt harris teaches a class about the antislavery movement, before the civil war. he describes some of the leaders about movement, and discusses the influence of abolitionist literature, such as narratives by former slaves and "uncle tom's cabin." this class is about 50 minutes. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] professor harris: let us get to work. today's session is three types of anti-slavery reforms. these for the hour is up, i want to hear reforms with rd