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 during the civil rights demonstration at which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech before the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.[1][2]

Manuel Abreu Castillo
President of the Puerto Rico Bar Association

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.
  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".


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.