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It's April 1987 on a cold, gray morning in Chicago.

The attorney Flint Taylor is rushing into work. He takes a sip of coffee and rubs his eyes.

It's been a long few days and springtime in the upper Midwest can still be brutally cold.

But even with the dreary weather in cloudy skies,

Taylor can't afford to feel groggy or risk falling behind on his work. Not with everything he and his law firm are trying to accomplish.

Taylor is one of the head attorneys at a firm known as the People's Law Office.

They're a civil rights firm and they work on cases involving police abuse and racial injustice.

Like Taylor, the other attorneys in the firm are driven by a sense of justice.

They want to make the world a better place. And they've taken on some high-profile cases, including working with clients like the Black Panthers.

For Taylor, the work has a deep and personal meaning. Even as a kid, he was already committed to the civil rights movement.

He wanted to make the world a little more fair, and that's why he co-founded the People's Law Office when he was only 23.

Over the years, his commitment to the cause has only grown deeper, especially with all the atrocities he's witnessed.

Taylor finally gets to his office and grabs a seat. Taking another big sip of coffee, he gets ready to dive back into work.

He has a lot to do and a lot of clients whose rights have been violated by the government.

Taylor opens a file cabinet and pulls out a folder.

He begins paging through a legal brief when suddenly his phone rings.

Hello, this is Flint Taylor.

Hello, I'm trying to find a lawyer.

Well, I mean, I have the right guy. Who am I speaking with?

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