News Selma to Minneapolis: The New Yorker Analysis by Daniel Perez - News Editor January 20, 2026 by Daniel Perez - News Editor January 20, 2026 On March 16, 1965, a thirty-nine-year-old woman named Viola Liuzzo got into a late-model Oldsmobile and drove eight hundred miles from her home in Detroit, Michigan, to Selma, Alabama. Days … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail