When it came to reporting, Roswell Falkenberry, editor of the paper from 1963 to 1974, had his staff practice unbiased reporting, staff said. In 1965, he won the Alabama Press Association’s Journalist of the Year Award for unbiased reporting during a time of Civil Rights unrest in Selma.

Anne Knight, the daughter of former Times-Journal editor and publisher Rosewell Falkenberry, looks over a picture of her father, who is in the photographs far right, after he was presented the Outstanding Daily Journalist by the Alabama Press Association in 1966. Top, Falkenberry, far left, is pictured with other Times-Journal co-workers on his first day at work at the newspaper. — Photo by Ashley Johnson, Selma Times Journal

A 2013 article in the Selma Times-Journal quoted Callahan’s [actually Falkenberry's] daughter Anne Knight when Alabama Press Association Hall of Honor decided to include her father.

“He did what he thought was right, but he just saw himself as doing his job,” Knight said in the article. “He was so positive during that period of time, I don’t know if he was ever afraid. He didn’t show it.”