DNA test reveals Johnny Cash's first wife Vivian Liberto, whom white supremacists terrorized, DID have a black ancestor


Johnny Cash's first wife was black and her great-great grandmother a slave, it has emerged - shocking the Cash family, and providing a dramatic posthumous twist to her remarkable story.

Vivian Liberto died in 2005 at the age of 71, believing she was of mixed Italian and German ancestry.

Mixed-race marriages were illegal until 1967, and it would be considered anathema, particularly in the South, for years to come.

Cash and Liberto sued newspapers who referred to her as black, and produced evidence of her white upbringing and education.

Yet modern techniques have finally confirmed that Liberto was indeed African American, and her great-great grandmother was born a slave.
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