This pioneering film in the history of African-American cinema, released two years before "A Raisin In The Sun", is the coming-of-age story of a Black high-school student living in a middle-class white neighborhood in the late '50s.

• Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions
• Johnny Nash
• Estelle Hemsley
• Ruby Dee
• Frederick O'Neal
• Beah Richards
• Ellen Holly
• Paulene Myers
• Royce Wallace