What the records say
- When
- 14 Dec 1922 – 15 Dec 1922
- Kind
- Massacre
- Coordinates
- 30.11° N, 83.58° W
- Description
- racially motivated conflict in Florida, USA
Perry massacre
Racially motivated conflict in Florida, USA
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.
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