3:20 p.m.--People are running.

3:22 p.m.--Police got somebody else; it's hard to tell who. Looks like they're taking them to the hospital. Three more ambulances went by. The ambulances are picking them up off the ground. There goes another one. Two more. There go three of them.

3:23 p.m.--They're carrying people by.

3:25 p.m.--It looks bad. They're carrying people by, putting people in ambulances, private ambulances. People are running. Here come the white hoodlums. A lady said they tried to kill her. I'm on the corner of one of the main streets. People in the streets who were marching look like they're going back to the churches.

3:26 p.m.--They're going back to the church. I'm going too. Should be there in about five minutes.

Brown's Chapel Church

James Austen:

3:22 p.m.--State troopers are outside the church throwing rocks..

John Lewis:

3:33 p.m.--People marched, 1500-2000 of them, marched down Highway 80, across the bridge. At the other-side of the bridge were 200 state troopers, 200 possemen, about 1000 white people. The major of the state troopers made an announcement that they should turn around; the people refused. They knelt to the ground in a prayerful manner. Then the state troopers fired tear gas at them and began to beat them. I was hit in the head. People went back to the church. There are about 2000-3000 in the church. The posse is coming down to the church. People on horseback are beating people with whips and ropes. They are shooting tear gas, acid. I've never seen anything like it in my life. One very old lady I know has a broken arm.

Billy Bailey:

3:37 p.m.--I was across the bridge almost to the front of the line. A number of people were beat by state troopers. They started walking toward us. When they started walking toward us, we walked back. We kneeled and started to pray. Then they started throwing gas. Then we just started running back.

Willie Emma Ecott:

3:40 p.m.--We have a problem. The guys are not nonviolent any more. They're ready to fight. About two or three busloads of possemen are in front of the church beating people, throwing tear gas, beating children and adults. They have about 20 people on horseback. I don't know how many's been carried to the hospital. John Lewis has a small hole in his head. I tried to do something for it, but he wouldn't let me. They say Christopher Wylie is in pretty bad condition. Another lady has her arm broken in two or three places.

4:45 p.m.--They didn't only throw tear gas at the people, but also sprayed it on them so their clothes are full of it. The church is full of tear gas.