First published in 1946, Trumpet to the World can be seen as a landmark novel, rare for its profound rendering of a black man s experience in Jim Crow America and prophetic of the social changes to come in the next decade. Its protagonist, Willie Jim, could have been brutalized by his family s hard existence in Georgia, buthe heads out early; could have been thoroughly demoralized by bigotry and discrimination in a hundred forms, but he learns to read and write and thinks for himself; could have been emotionally unfulfilled, but he learns to love in the midst of hate. After his...
First published in 1946, Trumpet to the World can be seen as a landmark novel, rare for its profound rendering of a black man s experience in J...
