The late May 1978 slaying of a black public health professional named Attaway Ozby stunned the Oklahoma City community. In addition to conducting studies for Oklahoma’s Environmental Health Research Institute, Ozby numbered among Rose College’s founding faculty, instructors committed to challenging educational norms through a more inclusive curriculum. Midwest City residents may have thrilled to nearby thunderous B-52 takeoffs but were mostly angered to learn of groundwater impacts attributable to Tinker Air Force Base. Join the late Attaway Ozby, his touring Harlem Globetrotter brother, Alastair, Mesta Park philanthropist Carl Nau, 10th St. Junkyard’s Royal Housecamp and bicycle builder Coy Minatra, along with Anesthesia Bob, as they seek answers. From the land of oilbased dreams, and even larger sunsets, comes a Crescent-based yarn, burros and basketball bonused by bicycles and tour riders, the environmental justice movement’s early days.
CRESCENT A NOVEL
John Thomas Pierce
Further Environmental Legacies
MILLION DOLLAR SPEEDWAY & 100-FT. DROP