| Part of Jim Crow Era | |
 News coverage of the Perry massacre | |
| Date |
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|---|---|
| Location | Perry, Florida |
| Participants | A white mob kills 4 Black men in December 1922 |
| Deaths | 4 |
The Perry massacre was a racially motivated conflict in Perry, Florida, in December 1922. Whites killed four black men, including Charles Wright, who was lynched by being burned at the stake, and they also destroyed several buildings in the black community of Perry after the murder of Ruby Hendry, a white female schoolteacher.[1][2]
- ^ Henry 2004, p. 31.
- ^ Ginzburg 1988, pp. 166–167.