Johnny Cash was born on February 26, 1932, in Kingsland, Arkansas, during the Great Depression, into a poor farming family that struggled daily to survive through hard agricultural labor and constant financial hardship.
He grew up in Dyess, Arkansas, a New Deal agricultural settlement where his family was given land to farm cotton, forcing all children to contribute from an early age just to support survival.
From around the age of five, Cash was already working in the cotton fields alongside his parents and…
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