Manuel Abreu-Castillo was a prominent 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.
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. He also fought to guarantee the fiscal autonomy of Puerto Rico's Judicial Branch.
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