Nina Mae McKinney

An undercover anti-gang agent works in a nightclub where a protection racket is headquartered.

A bar room brawl tragedy turns a sharecropper into a preacher who becomes torn between a jazz singing vamp and the woman who truly loves him.

Pinky (Jeanne Crain), a black woman who works as a nurse in Boston, finds she is able to pass for white. Afraid her true heritage will be discovered, she leaves her white fiancé (William Lundigan) and returns home to Mississippi.