Cyril Briggs, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Cyril Briggs

Saint Kitts and Nevis writer

Date of Birth: 28-May-1888

Date of Death: 18-Oct-1966

Profession: writer, politician

Nationality: Saint Kitts and Nevis

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Cyril Valentine Briggs (May 28, 1888, Nevis – October 18, 1966, Los Angeles, California) was an African-Caribbean American writer and communist political activist.
Briggs is best remembered as founder and editor of The Crusader, a seminal New York magazine of the New Negro Movement of the 1920s, and as founder of the African Blood Brotherhood, a small but historically important radical organization dedicated to advancing the cause of Pan-Africanism.