Looking back at Roseanne Cash's 2021 appearance on 'Finding Your Roots,' which led to an 'incredible' revelation.
While discussing her early life, Cash recalled how her mother, Vivian Liberto Cash, had been the target of a racist hate campaign after a photo of her and her country star husband was published in the 1950s following his arrest for the possession of amphetamines.
Vivian Cash corroborates the account her memoir, writing that she still"hates" when accusations are"dignified" with a response, like the one her first husband wrote."To this day, I hate when accusations and threats from people like that are dignified with any response at all," Vivian Cash wrote. The news deeply touched Cash, who said,"It feels heartbreaking. I just kind of wish I could go back in time and fix things.”
William Shields never married the unnamed black woman, and the “Finding Your Roots” team couldn’t uncover much about her. But in a dispute about he father's property, Sarah A. Shields revealed her mother had never been legally emancipated. By the 1930s, Cash’s ancestors began to conceal their ancestry. The death records of Sarah Shields' children and grandchildren all had their race listed as white.
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