Perry massacre

Perry massacres

Part of Jim Crow Era
News coverage of the Perry massacre
Date	December 6, 1922 - Cubrit Dixon December 8, 1922 - Charles Wright December 12, 1922 - Albert Young December 15, 1922 - Unidentified Black man
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]}