Trumpet to the WorldFirst published in 1946, Trumpet to the World can be seen as a landmark novel, rare for its profound rendering of a black mans 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 familys 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 read