Fleeing from trouble, Leroi "King" Tremain embarks on a journey that leads him into combat in the first World War and eventually into numerous battles against oppression as he continually struggles for respect as a black man in the first half of the twentieth century.
When LeRoi Tremain is forced to leave his home after he kills two white deputies, he embarks on a journey brings him face to face with the horror of World War I, the Mob in Harlem, and the Ku Klux Klan in Louisiana.
When LeRoi Tremain is forced to leave his home after he kills two white deputies, he embarks on a journey brings him face to face with the horror of World War I, the Mob in Harlem, and the Ku Klux Klan in Louisiana.