Nelson Holmes, a black man posing as a white man, had advanced from office boy to general manager.
A research chemist with a drug company, is close to success in his attempt to develop a chemical substitute for gasoline. Juan Bronson, who is the private secretary of, the president of the company, conspires with to steal Paul's formula.
A recent young widow Anne Morgan is thrust into terrible poverty. Unable to care for both of her children, she persuades a prominent black doctor to adopt one of the boys.
Follows a son of a well-known Black publisher, who has written a novel entitled The Uplift but is told by his publisher that it lacks the aura of reality because he has not lived among the lowly folk about whom he attempts to write.
The story deals with a man whose fidelity and loyalty are rewarded by his being thrown into prison for the crime of another.
