After graduating from Harvard University, Peter Siner returns to his small Tennessee hometown, where he hopes to start a school for black children.

Ted Gregory is trying to be the first black producer to mount a show on Broadway, but he has trouble with his star singer.

Naomi, a light-skinned Black child, is abandoned by her mother and raised by the virtuous Mrs. Saunders. When the girl’s fixation with whiteness turns her against her own race, she…