Changes

===Replacing the Black and Tans===

===Replacing the Black and Tans===

[[File:Perry Wilbon Howard, II.jpg|thumb|right|220px|The Mississippi Republican delegations were previously led by [[Perry Howard, II]] (pictured above).]]

[[File:Perry Wilbon Howard, II.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The Mississippi Republican delegations were previously led by [[Perry Howard, II]] (pictured above).]]

Yerger's conservatives, who stressed [[states' rights]], replaced the former Black and Tan contingent, which had governed the state party from [[Washington, D.C.]], with the [[African-American]] [[attorney]] [[Perry W. Howard, II]] (1877–1961) as the national committeeman and the past dispenser of the limited federal patronage in the state.<ref name=jacksonfp>{{cite web|url=http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2009/may/12/yergers-revisionist-lily-white-history/|author=Ronni Mott|title=Yerger's Revisionist ‘Lily White' History|date=May 12, 2009|publisher=''The Jackson Free Press''|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref> At the  [[Republican National Convention]] in [[Chicago]] in 1952, Howard led an all-black delegation pledged not to Eisenhower, but [[U.S. Senator]] [[Robert A. Taft]] of [[Ohio]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mises.org/daily/2755|author=Murray N. Rothbard|title=Swan Song of the Old Right|publisher=mises.org|date=June 21, 2011|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref> a favorite of the conservative forces and known for his opposition to segregation. Taft said, "No segregationist belongs on a Republican ticket or even in the party."<ref name="ReferenceA">"Challenging the Status Quo," p. 248.</ref>

Yerger's conservatives, who stressed [[states' rights]], replaced the former Black and Tan contingent, which had governed the state party from [[Washington, D.C.]], with the [[African-American]] [[attorney]] [[Perry W. Howard, II]] (1877–1961) as the national committeeman and the past dispenser of the limited federal patronage in the state.<ref name=jacksonfp>{{cite web|url=http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2009/may/12/yergers-revisionist-lily-white-history/|author=Ronni Mott|title=Yerger's Revisionist ‘Lily White' History|date=May 12, 2009|publisher=''The Jackson Free Press''|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref> At the  [[Republican National Convention]] in [[Chicago]] in 1952, Howard led an all-black delegation pledged not to Eisenhower, but [[U.S. Senator]] [[Robert A. Taft]] of [[Ohio]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mises.org/daily/2755|author=Murray N. Rothbard|title=Swan Song of the Old Right|publisher=mises.org|date=June 21, 2011|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref> a favorite of the conservative forces and known for his opposition to segregation. Taft said, "No segregationist belongs on a Republican ticket or even in the party."<ref name="ReferenceA">"Challenging the Status Quo," p. 248.</ref>