JR Ralph Casimir (1898-1996) was a Pan-Africanist and poet from the
Caribbean island of Dominica. He was organizer and General Secretary of
the island's branch of the Universal Negro Improvement Association
(1912-1922) and agent for Marcus Garvey's Black Star Line.
This biography, lovingly written by his granddaughter Kathy Casimir
MacLean, is the first in-depth look at the life of this courageous
Dominican whose dedication to Pan-Africanist ideas is reflected in his
writings and in his links with Garvey and other key African-American
figures of the time. He was also a teacher, church cantor and poet,
founding Dominica's first literary society and publishing the first
anthologies of Dominican poetry.