J. R. Ralph Casimir (original) (raw)

J. R. Ralph Casimir (28 September 1898 – 8 March 1996) was a Dominican poet, editor, journalist and bookseller. A pioneering Caribbean pan-Africanist, he was a founding member of Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), organising its Dominica branch. Casimir also compiled Dominica's first poetry anthologies.