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Originally Posted by ittybitty
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I would rather have another picture before making a judgement. She does look like she could be a mulatta in that photo, assuming that her hair was straightened and dyed, but it is a very bad picture.
I wonder if they did such effective transformations of negro hair in the 40s and 50s, not only getting the kinks out but making it actually look like White people's hair. I don't think I ever saw that until recent years. I think that her face's
colored appearance is due in large part to heavily applied, outlined lipstick.
It would have been a big scandal and it would have crippled his career if Johnny Cash was married to a
colored woman and people knew about it. On the other hand, being part-Injun didn't have much of a stigma.