Manuel Abreu Castillo

Manuel Abreu-Castillo was a lawyer who, as the youngest President of the Puerto Rico Bar Association led a delegation of 11 lawyers from Puerto Rico who joined the August 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, at which Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.[1][2]

Manuel Abreu Castillo
President of the Puerto Rico Bar Association
Personal details
Born
January 30, 1927

Isabela, Puerto Rico
DiedDecember 18, 1969
San Juan, Puerto Rico

During Abreu's term as Bar president, he was active in the Interamerican Lawyers Federation and served as the organization's liaison with Dr. Arturo Morales Carrión, at the time the Assistant Deputy Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs at the United States State Department.[3] He also fought to guarantee the fiscal autonomy of Puerto Rico's Judicial Branch.[4]

References
  1. "Marcharon con Luther King". El Nuevo Dia. 16 January 2012.
  2. "Marching with Martin Luther King". CentroVoices.
  3. http://dspace.cai.sg.inter.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/14597/B46c009d001.pdf?sequence=1
  4. "Autonomía Presupuestaria para la Rama Judicial".


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