Changes

===Replacing the Black and Tans===

===Replacing the Black and Tans===

[[File:Perry Wilbon Howard, II.jpg|thumb|right|200px|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.<ref name="ReferenceA">"Challenging the Status Quo," p. 248.</ref>

In addition to the Yerger and Howard factions, there were two other smaller groups contending for intra-party power, the Lily-White Movement, led by George Lawson Sheldon (1870–1960), a former [[governor]] of [[Nebraska]], who had run for governor of Mississippi in 1947 and polled only 2.5 percent of the vote, and the "Democrats for Eisenhower" under E. O. Spencer. Some media had incorrectly identified Yerger as the head of the Lily Whites who had ousted the Black and Tans.<ref name=madison>{{cite web|url=http://onlinemadison.com/m/Articles.aspx?ArticleID=23246|title=Yerger recounts history of state GOP in new book|publisher=onlinemadison.com|date=January 21, 2011|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref>

In addition to the Yerger and Howard factions, there were two other smaller groups contending for intra-party power, the Lily-White Movement, led by George Lawson Sheldon (1870–1960), a former [[governor]] of [[Nebraska]], who had run for governor of Mississippi in 1947 and polled only 2.5 percent of the vote, and the "Democrats for Eisenhower" under E. O. Spencer. Some media had incorrectly identified Yerger as the head of the Lily Whites who had ousted the Black and Tans.<ref name=madison>{{cite web|url=http://onlinemadison.com/m/Articles.aspx?ArticleID=23246|title=Yerger recounts history of state GOP in new book|publisher=onlinemadison.com|date=January 21, 2011|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref>