[davandbar]

My birth certificate has caucasion. I was born in California in 1966.

However, using African as race makes absolutely no sense (unless they just asked the mother and put down what she said)

[muawiyah]

It was Hawaii. It was 1961. Using "white" or "non-white" as recommended by the federales probably didn't make much sense to the people there ~ more than 2/3 of whom were Japanese or Chinese. Another large bunch came from all over the Pacific basin.

I strongly suspect the locals elected to simply put down whatever the mother said just to stop any downstream kvetching.