COUNTRY star Johnny Cash spent years battling white supremacists who claimed his first wife, Vivian Liberto, was Black — but now a shocking DNA test proves it’s true!
Johnny and Vivian’s oldest of four daughters, singer Rosanne Cash, 66, was stunned to learn her mother’s great-great grandma, Sarah Shields, was a Black slave after the PBS show Finding Your Roots ran her DNA test.
Her ancestor’s harsh life was “heartbreaking,” says Rosanne.
Sarah was born a slave, but her white father freed her and her eight siblings in 1848.
She went on to illegally marry a white man and passed her “whiteness” on to her children and theirs, which included Vivian, Rosanne reveals.
In an era when overt racism was rampant in America and the south was not integrated, Johnny,…
