Before Reginald J. Clyne of Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer in Miami was an accomplished civil litigator, he was the son of the U.S. Department of State’s first Black attorney.

It was the 1960s, and Clyne’s father, like many activists in the civil rights movement, attended protests at segregated restaurants, where they’d sit on lunch counters and ignore racist taunts and abuse from onlookers.