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In a 1937 report by the Committee on Farm Tenancy to President Franklin Roosevelt, it was estimated that nearly half of the farmers in the South, close to a third in the North, and a fourth in the West were what was known as "tenant" farmers. (Austgen) When Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, it was with a promise to change the nature of the American economy to better serve the millions of Americans who then were living in the grips of poverty. The previous president, Hoover, was a practitioner of the "Liaise Faire" model of economics which rejected government participation in the economy. Roosevelt's attempted to help tenant farmers led to the Bankhead-Jones Farm Act, which "reorganized the Resettlement Administration as the Farm Security Administration and which included among its purposes assisting enterprising tenants in becoming land owners." (Austgen) This interest in tenant...
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