[tsowellfan]

Since the race "African" was already listed in the document there should not have been a number beside it.

I think "Negro" may have been used in the 1960s.

[Terry Mross]

In the south the word was “niggra” or “colored”. In the sixties the blacks started asking “Who are colored people?” I thought that was pretty slick of them.

[mazda77]

Correct, Zullo made mention that the “African” race designation was not used until 1968.

Do we have a troll amongst us? I mean if Fred really wanted to know, wouldn’t he/she/it have just read both documents and reported just where he/she/it found the discrepancies? Never mind all of the other problems with that one section alone. Obviously this particular point has someone very exercised at the moment.

[edge919]

The father’s race, if it was legitimately entered as “African” most likely would have been coded as 2 - Black. The vital statistics report said: “a reported mixture of Negro with any other race is included in the Negro group” ... I’m pretty sure that if the Hawaiian registrar saw African on a birth certificate, they would have assumed it was Negro and would have coded it as No. 2.