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Daily Mail4y
Johnny Cash's first wife was black and her great-grandmother was a freed slave
Vivian Liberto died in 2005 at the age of 71 ... Yet modern techniques have finally confirmed that Liberto had an African American ancestor, her great-great grandmother who was born a slave.
The Washington Post4y
White supremacists attacked Johnny Cash for marrying a ‘Negro’ woman. But was his first wife Black?
An African American passing her on the street could ... The answer would not arrive for more than half a century. Johnny Cash and Vivian Liberto met during the summer of 1951 at a roller rink ...
The Cheat Sheet4y
Singer Johnny Cash Once Faced Disturbing Backlash Because of His First Marriage To Vivian Cash
Before falling head over heels for Carter, Cash was married to his first wife, Vivian ... to Liberto was faced with immense backlash due to hate groups believing she was African American.
Fox News4y
Johnny Cash’s first wife had Black heritage, DNA test proves
According to Daily Mail, Vivian Liberto believed herself to be of ... many of her direct descendants have no idea that they have any African American ancestry," said Gates. Roseanne, 65, found ...
Hollywood Life4y
Johnny Cash’s Daughter Shares ‘Heartbreak’: Finds Out Mom’s Black Ancestor Was Enslaved
“It feels heartbreaking,” Rosanne Cash admitted through tears after finding out that an ancestor of her mother, Vivian Liberto Cash — the first wife of singer-songwriter Johnny ...
Variety5y
‘My Darling Vivian’: SXSW Film Review
The daughter of a devoutly Catholic Sicilian-American family in San Antonio, Vivian Liberto was 17 when she ... photo mistook the Sicilian-American as African-American — at a time when mixed ...
Rolling Stone5y
Johnny Cash’s First Wife Profiled in New Doc ‘My Darling Vivian’: What We Learned
Vivian Liberto’s fateful first encounter with ... beside her husband led to a widely circulated rumor that she was African-American. The appearance of an interracial marriage was a damaging ...
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Inside The Troubled Marriage Of Johnny Cash And Vivian Liberto
After Johnny Cash’s drug arrest in 1965, a newspaper printed a photo of him with Vivian Liberto. It caused an uproar among fans because readers thought Liberto was African American instead of ...
The New York Times5y
‘My Darling Vivian’ Review: The Forgotten Wife of Johnny Cash
who thought that Liberto, an Italian-American born in Texas, was black. “My Darling Vivian” (its title is taken from Cash’s letters to Liberto) also chips away at Carter’s public persona ...
Yahoo4y
White supremacists attacked Johnny Cash for marrying a 'Negro' woman - but was his first wife Black?
Country musician Johnny Cash rehearses with his wife Vivian Liberto for his upcoming appearance on the television show Ranch Party.
Variety5y
‘My Darling Vivian’: SXSW Film Review
The daughter of a devoutly Catholic Sicilian-American family in San Antonio, Vivian Liberto was 17 when she ... photo mistook the Sicilian-American as African-American — at a time when mixed ...