Nothing But A Man

The story of a young Negro who gives up a good job to settle down and marry the preacher's daughter, who is a school teacher. The usual emotional adjustment to marriage is made more difficult because he refuses to play the role expected of Negroes in Alabama society.

Duff Anderson works on a railroad section gang near Birmingham, Alabama, earning a good wage and living an itinerant life with his black co-workers. Duff meets the pretty and genteel schoolteacher Josie, the daughter of Preacher Dawson. They begin to date against the wishes of Josie's father and stepmother, who think Duff is not good enough for Josie. After Duff visits his four-year-old illegitimate son in the care of Duff's unloving, indifferent stepmother (Lee) and Duff's emotionally abusive, drunken father, Duff realizes that he prefers the stability of a family to the