The young man who is are main character is never given a name, which can show how unimportant and invisible the author seemed to make him. .
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After a few more run ins with whites he finally receives a scholarship to an all black college. While attending this college he ends up work as a chauffeur for a white man. As he works with the white man he learns little by little how he should act and seem when he's around the whites. He and the man become very well in working together and seem to understand each other very well. Later the man finds out that this white man, is the person who started the college and learns how he feels towards blacks. After so time together both men get along very well and explain to each other how each one feels towards a certain topic.
After a few other meetings with multiple people, a few good and a few bad. Are character finds himself joining a group called the brother hood. This so called brotherhood is about the whole idea of blacks are there own group and that they should leave the white society to go off and do their own thing. As a member of the brotherhood are character learns all types of different ways that people feel towards one another. The brotherhood has a different group of people in it that have some what the same feelings about people as others and some that have there own idea of what things should be like. The brotherhood talks about how things are run and how the black society feels towards the white communities. Each group has their own feelings and ideas. Its the basic struggle between which is right and which is wrong. The feeling towards is separation is the right idea of should both races work together as one.
That's the basic run through of what the book is about, a quick briefing.
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The first black leader was a soft-spoken man named Booker T. Washington. The black child known simply as Booker was born a slave on a farm in Franklin County, Virginia.
