SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A dark day in Louisiana history had lasting effects on the nation's delicate attempt to integrate newly freed enslaved Blacks into the fabric of the red, white, and blue. That day also served as a bond that would forever connect two strangers.

During Andrew Callahan's Channel 5 interview with Hunter Biden, the former president's son was discussing the nation's history with racism and revolution, and mentioned a little-known massacre in Colfax, Louisiana, and how that event was the first step toward the derailment of the U.S. post-Civil War reconstruction.

A series of internet searches for the massacre led to Dean Woods and Reverand Avery Hamilton—two men with roots in central Louisiana and family connections to the killings. The two had never met and only le

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