Flint Taylor was born and grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts, the son of a college professor. Following his undergraduate education at a Providence, Rhode Island Ivy League college, Taylor was accepted at Northwestern University's Law School. He arrived in Chicago in the summer of 1968, a week after the Democratic Convention and the notorious police riots that convulsed the nation. While in law school Taylor became a political progressive, and got involved with the campaigns to defend members of the Black Panther Party, the Young Lords and the SDS from various charges. Upon graduation from law school Taylor and associates founded the Peoples' Law Firm, taking on multiple cases that no one else would touch. Following the murder of Fred Hampton, a leader of the Black Panther Party by officers of the Chicago PD, Taylor waged a 13-year legal fight, uncovering evidence of the FBI's collusion in what was an assassination-not a "shootout" but a "shootin". Taylor's next big-scale case was a civil suit launched in 1985 concerning the November 3, 1979 Greensboro Massacre, in which five civil rights/labor activists were murdered by members of the KKK and Nazis. Working with Greensboro attorney Lewis Pitts, Taylor was successful in this landmark case, winning an historic victory for the relatives of the victims. During this trial Taylor's life (and that of Pitts) was repeatedly threatened. During the late 1980s Taylor undertook a 30 year campaign to uncover and stop the systemic torture of African-American men by officers of the Chicago Police Department, who forced confessions of over 150 men. This legal battle led to prison sentences and millions of dollars in reparations for the victims. Over his 50 year career Mr. Taylor has unflinchingly stood for justice, twice arguing cases in the U.S. Supreme Court-both successfully! As he puts it, "you gain strength from the people you represent". He is not done yet, and is truly an Unsung Hero.