Invisible Man is the story of a young black man from the South who has been oppressed and controlled by white men his whole life and does not fully understand racism in the world. Filled with hope about his future, he speaks at a town meeting in front of a large group of important white men and gets a scholarship to an all-black college. Eventually he gets expelled for unintentionally showing one of the white school trustees the real and unpleasant side of black existence. He then moves to Harlem where he starts to speak for the Communist party, also known as the Brotherhood. Since he decides to become an orator for the brotherhood he gets swept up into a hectic world he does not fully understand causing him to be threatened by many and praised
