One of the most iconic singer-songwriters in music history, it doesn’t come as a surprise that many of Johnny Cash’s seven ...

While he’s well-known for his relationship with June Carter, we can’t forget that he was married to Vivian Liberto first. Liberto and Cash had four kids together, but they couldn’t make ...

Vivian Liberto was married to Cash from 1954-66. She believed she was of Sicilian and German-Irish heritage, but it has now emerged her great-great grandmother was enslaved.

Liberto was raised in San Antonio. Her mother was an alcoholic who would sometimes be passed out when Vivian got home from school; the young girl would clean the house so her father wouldn’t know.

Rosanne Cash became tearful after learning that her mom, Vivian Liberto Cash, had a Black great-great grandmother who was subjected to a life of slavery.

52 years after they met as teenagers at a roller rink, Vivian Liberto paid one last visit to her first husband, Johnny Cash. It was 2003. For decades, she had lived a private life, and once Cash ...

While Vivian's father, Thomas, became an insurance salesman, it was her uncle, Enrico, who continued the family business under the name Liberto Specialty Co. through the 1930s.

“My Darling Vivian” (its title is taken from Cash’s letters to Liberto) also chips away at Carter’s public persona; the daughters say she took credit for raising them.

During a 2021 appearance on Finding Your Roots, Roseanne Cash learned the truth of her mother Vivian Liberto's Black ancestry and that her dad Johnny Cash had a Black acnestor.