Editing Perry, Florida (section)

==History==
In 1922, Perry was a very small town of less than 2,000 people. During this time, a murder happened and three people were [[lynching|lynched]] for the crimes. Private retribution against the suspected families and those that gave them support ensued. The [[Perry massacre|Perry Massacre]] occurred in Perry on the 14th and 15 December 1922, during which whites hanged Charles Wright and attacked the blacks of Perry after the murder of a white schoolteacher.<ref name="Henry2007">{{cite book|last=Henry|first=Charles P.|title=Long overdue: the politics of racial reparations|url=https://archive.org/details/longoverduepolit00henr|url-access=registration|access-date=23 May 2013|year=2007|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=978-0-8147-3692-0|pages=[https://archive.org/details/longoverduepolit00henr/page/70 70]–71}}</ref> On the day following Wright's lynching two more black men were shot and hanged; whites then burned the town's black school, [[Masonic lodge]], church, amusement hall, and several families' homes.<ref name="Henry2007" /><ref name="henry">{{Cite book | publisher = Yale University Press | isbn = 978-0-300-09541-8 |editor=C. Michel Henry| last = Henry | first = C. Michael | title = Race, poverty, and domestic policy | chapter = Introduction | location = New Haven | series = Yale ISPS series | access-date = 2013-05-23 | year = 2004 | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=_DmN-Zq-WPIC&pg=PA31 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/racepovertydomes00henr }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Ginzburg |first1=Ralph |title=Perry Race Riots |url=https://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/6508 |website=History Engine |access-date=15 October 2020}}</ref>

Firefighters battling a blaze at a natural gas plant in August 1998 were injured when an explosion ripped through the area, sending a mammoth fireball into the sky. The flames destroyed at least six houses and several vehicles and forced the evacuation of 100 homes within two miles of the plant. Four firefighters were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gendisasters.com/florida/23257/perry-fl-gas-plant-explosion-aug-1998|title=Perry, FL Gas Plant Explosion, Aug 1998 {{!}} GenDisasters ... Genealogy in Tragedy, Disasters, Fires, Floods|website=www.gendisasters.com|access-date=2019-07-23}}</ref>

In August 2023, [[Hurricane Idalia]] impacted Florida. Perry was in the path of the storm and suffered damage across the city.  

In September 2024, [[Hurricane Helene (2024)|Hurricane Helene]] made landfall near Perry as a [[Saffir-Simpson scale#Category 4|Category 4]]-strength storm, causing major damage and loss of power.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-09-27 |title=Hurricane Helene kills at least 44 and cuts a swath of destruction across the Southeast |url=https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-helene-florida-georgia-carolina-e5769b56dea81e40fae2161ad1b4e75d |access-date=2024-10-03 |website=AP News |language=en}}</ref>