Alec Lovejoy

Dramatic events in a Harlem apartment house center around a man chosen by the Better Business League to replace the ousted, crooked leader.

Legendary blues singer Bessie Smith and the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra tell the story of a woman who is deserted by her boyfriend for a St. Louis floozy. She then sings the title song, an elaborate ten-minute production number with dance sequences and a chorus by the Hall Johnson Choir.

A Black Harvard graduate returns to his rural Tennessee hometown where a racist banker capitalizes on his plan to open an industrial training school.

A Black night watchman at a chemical factory finds the body of a murdered white woman. After he reports it, he finds himself accused of the murder.