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

Trista December 27, 2018 12 min

Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning Coming Down — A photograph of Johnny Cash with a cigarette. Blogspot.

28. Cash Grew Up During the Great Depression

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.

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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28. Cash Grew Up During the Great Depression

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