from Roscoe C. Jamison: A Voice Unheardmore by Yasser Aman (He was a non combatant but the impact of the war on Black American was instrumental in some of these poems esp the tille)

Referenced in A Bibliography of Neo-African Literature : From Africa, Ameria and the Caribbean by Andre Deutsch

"Roscoe C. Jamison (1886-1918) is one of the early modern black poets, who passed away in his early thirties unnoticed and almost unread. He was born in Winchester, Tennessee, and attended Fisk University (Roscoe C. Jamison). Thanks to a sincere friend, William F. Neil, who gathered a few poems and published them under the title “Negro Soldiers and Other Poems(1918)”, Jamison was introduced to the world. ...The themes of this volume, which revolve around religion, death, despair, hope and patriotism, reflect intricate contradictory feelings of hope and despair; acceptance of death and desire for life; crave for justice and abhorring of injustice; proclamation of patriotism and imposed ostracism; and love of God the Savior and indirect criticism against His indifference towards racial crimes. The interconnectedness of themes and the didactic style, that entices enthusiastic people to take action, deftly portray the black conditions and their disappointment in the aftermath of World War I. They let white people lead them on and get them involved in the war, only to discover that what they had been given of promises would never be fulfilled. "