Carl Sandburg, wife of the noted poet and herself one of the nation’s better known dairy goat raisers, offers employment to young nisei experienced in milking to care for her goats. Library of Congress (loc.gov) “GOAT CARETAKER WANTED BY NOTED POET’S WIFE: So Somebody got your goat? Well, don’t let that bother you because Mrs. Image of Farm-Hand advertisement in the Granada Pioneer, April 22, 1944. At the time, Carl, Lilian, Margaret, and Janet Sandburg were living roughly 60 miles southeast of Chicago in a four story house at the edge of Lake Michigan.
Through the War Relocation Authority office in Chicago, Lilian Sandburg advertised positions for a secretary and a farm hand.
While restrictions on returning to the west coast continued, incarcerated individuals were encouraged to resettle in midwestern communities such as Chicago, where the first regional WRA office was opened. 2 The WRA’s mission eventually shifted from constructing and managing confinement centers to creating regional resettlement offices to assist those incarcerated in leaving the sites and assimilating into white middle-class environments. The WRA built and operated the incarceration sites Japanese Americans were involuntarily confined in. The War Relocation Authority (WRA) was the federal agency created to care for the Japanese Americans forcibly removed from the west coast.
In order to get permission to leave these confinement centers, Japanese Americans needed to secure an outside sponsor, provide proof of employment or education, and complete FBI background checks to prove their loyalty to the United States. Around 120,000 people were forced to leave their homes and give up their livelihoods and property, and in some cases were even separated from their families. On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which called for the involntary removal of Japanese American civilians, many American citizens, from the west coast to government sanctioned confinement centers.
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