User talk:Rconrad40

Editors,

I’d appreciate your input regarding a proposed addition that I’d like to see incorporated into the subject heading, “Executive Order 9066.” In reviewing this section recently, I was struck by the fact that no reference was made to the 1972 book & traveling exhibition of that title. Prior to 1972, books on the subject of the internment barely referred to the executive order itself. Because I was involved in bringing these two projects to fruition, I don’t trust my instincts as to whether or not my comments (below) are self-serving or are raising legitimate concerns.

Rconrad40 (talk) 15:17, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Suggested comments:

"The phrase, “Executive Order 9066” has become a shorthand description of the evacuation and internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. It entered popular usage when a book and a traveling exhibition of photographs entitled, Executive Order 9066: The Internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans were published in 1972.  The book and exhibit were edited by Maisie and Richard Conrat and included 73 photographs, many by Dorothea Lange. Both book and two sets of the exhibit were produced by the California Historical Society.  The exhibits opened simultaneously at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco and the University Art Gallery in Berkeley in January 1972, and for several years thereafter, they traveled to museums throughout the United States."