Trumpet to the World

by Mark Harris

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, but he heads out early; could have been thoroughly demoralized by bigotry and discrimination in a hundred forms, but he learns to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803223536
• ISBN13: 9780803223530
• Release Date: February 1989
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 242 Pages