Last Sunday Selma, Alabama, Negroes began a 50-mile march to Montgomery to protest voter discrimination. The following report was compiled by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee directly from phone calls and field-radio reports made by SNCC staff members from various locations in Selma.

Brown's Chapel Church

W.E Scott:

2 p.m.--John Lewis, Chairman of SNCC, Robert Mants, SNCC staff, and Hosea Williams, SCLC staff, are leading the march. They are in the process of organizing into companies and squads, with company commanders and squad leaders.

Near the Bridge

Larry Fox:

2:45 p.m.--The people are at the bridge over the Alabama River; they have to walk double file. A group of state troopers, plus white people, plus Sheriff Clark and his posse, plus Al Lingo, head of the state highway patrol, are on the other side of the bridge.

A Street Corner

Lafayette Surney:

3 p.m.--About 2000-3000 people are marching. Mr. Turner of Marion [Alabama] is also leading. They are on the bridge now. If the police stop the people, they will wait until they are tear-gassed to leave.

3:06 p.m.--Two carloads of possemen just went to the bridge. The police are making local whites get indoors. SNCC's Annie Pearl Avery was just arrested--don't know what for. She just passed by in a police car. Two local white guys were also arrested. Three doctors and six or seven nurses from the Medical Committee for Human Rights, also three ambulances are there.

3:15 p.m.--State troopers are throwing tear gas on them. A few are running back. A few are being blinded by tear gas. Somebody got hurt--don't know who. They're beating them and throwing tear gas at them.

3:16 p.m.--Police are beating people on the streets. Oh, man, they're just picking them up and putting them in ambulances. People are getting hurt bad. There were two people on the ground in pretty bad shape. I'm going to leave in a few minutes. People are running back this way.

3:17 p.m.--Ambulances are going by with their sirens going. People are running, crying, telling what's happening.

3:18 p.m.--Police are pushing people into alleys--I don't know why. People are screaming, hollering. They're bringing on more ambulances. People are running, hollering, crying.