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Vivian Liberto Cash Distin was an American author and the first spouse of the renowned country artist Johnny Cash (April 23, 1934–May 24, 2005). When Johnny Cash was a member … ....
Vivian Liberto met Johnny Cash in 1951, when she was 17 and he was 19 The pair were married from 1954-66: she died in 2005, aged 71 She was born to a Sicilian-origin father and a mother of German-Irish descent Only now has it emerged that she was black, via her great-great grandmother Sarah Shields was born a slave to a white father and a black mother She was granted her freedom and her whiteness , which passed to her children In 1965 Liberto was pictured looking like a black woman, enraging his fans White supremacists organized a boycott of his music; he sued for libel Cash s team provided evidence of her whiteness in the multimillion dollar suit ....
Cash denied his first wife, Vivian, was African American during a 1965 boycott by racists sparked by a photo of them together. The questions about Vivian's ancestry were finally resolved on the PBS show, 'Finding Your Roots.' ....