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This is a time when the industrial might of the US was converted from making automobiles and washing machines to airplanes and bombs; a time when men carried guns instead of lunch pails; a time when machines stood idle because there was no white men to operate them; a time when white women left home to take the place of white men in the factories. This is a time when most unions and companies continued to ban Negroes from skill-training or employment in all but janitorial jobs; a time when white men refused to have black men work alongside them....

Harvest the Dust is a historical fiction novel about an Arkansas farm family during the mid-1930s. A husband and wife struggle to keep their land, to keep their family together, to keep their love and respect for each other, and to overcome their fears.