The Man In Black, Johnny Cash, Uncovered in these Little Known Facts

The Man In Black, Johnny Cash, Uncovered in these Little Known Facts

Trista - December 27, 2018

The Man In Black, Johnny Cash, Uncovered in these Little Known Facts
Johnny Cash’s boyhood home in Dyess, Arkansas where he lived from the age of three in 1935 until he finished high school in 1950. The property, pictured here in 2013, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Thomas R Machnitzki/Wikimedia Commons.

28. Cash Grew Up During the Great Depression

Johnny spent much of his childhood working out in the fields of Arkansas during the Great Depression. His family benefited from some of the New Deal programs implemented by Franklin Roosevelt, which helped lift them out of poverty and ease their debts. Music provided an escape from many of the hardships of the Great Depression.

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