MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 6, 1965 (UPI) -- Gov. George C. Wallace announced Saturday he would not let Negroes march from Selma to Montgomery Sunday, but integration leaders said that if state police "try to bully us, we'll have to stand our ground."

SELMA, Ala., March 7, 1965 (UPI) - State troopers and mounted deputies bombarded 600 Negroes with tear gas Sunday when they knelt to pray on a bridge, then attacked them with clubs. Troopers and possemen, under orders from Gov. George C. Wallace to stop the Negro "walk for freedom" to Montgomery, chased the marchers nearly a mile through town, clubbing them as they ran.

SELMA, Ala. March 8, 1965 (UPI) -- The National Council of Churches today called on Christians throughout the nation to join Negro demonstrators in a protest march tomorrow from Selma to Montgomery, Ala.

SELMA, Ala., March 9, 1965 (UPI) - President Johnson today sharply condemned police brutality against Negro demonstrators in Alabama but urged both sides in the voting rights dispute to observe law and order. Lyndon B. Johnson's views were relayed by Justice Department officials to Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama and the Rev. Martin Luther King, leader of the Negro demonstrators.

SELMA, Ala., March 9, 1965 (UPI) - A federal court issued an order Tuesday barring a scheduled mass march on the Alabama capital, but Negro leaders said they would go ahead with the demonstration. "The march is on. We are going to get it organized right now," declared C. T. Vivian, one of Dr. Martin Luther King's top aides.

SELMA, Ala., March 10, 1965 (UPI) - Dowagers, white men of the cloth and Negro maids and laborers walked side by side over the arching bridge that spans the muddy Alabama River.

SELMA, Ala., March 10, 1965 (UPI) -- At least 1,000 Negroes led by six Roman Catholic nuns tried to march to the Dallas County courthouse Wednesday but were halted by a force of city, council and state officers.