[mquinn]

I’ll have to point out a flaw in the conclusions drawn here. Hospital staff do not sit there and note “yep, that’s a white/Negro/American Indian/ Chinese/Japanese/etc...” into the records. That sort of info is provided by the parents of the child themselves, TO the hospital.

Do you really think a black man in 1961 is going to self-identify as a “Negro” ?

[DouglasKC]

Do you really think a black man in 1961 is going to self-identify as a “Negro” ?

Yes, because it wasn't a bad word back then. It was the way to describe black people.

[kabar]

Yes. I graduated high school in 1961. Negro was the accepted term of identification. Ever hear of the United Negro College Fund?

From Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream Speech," delivered 28 August 1963:

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

[Ann Archy]

How did the New York Times refer to blacks in 1961?? Negroes? African?? hmmmm

[maica]

Do you really think a black man in 1961 is going to self-identify as a “Negro” ?

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“Negro” was the accepted term in 1961. It was considered to be more polite than “colored” which had been the accepted term, viz. NAACP.

“Black” did not become the preferred term until late in the sixties.

[buccaneer81]

I see you have an agenda:

Quinn is: * Anti-Obama, but openly scornful of Birthers

BTW, the terms "Afro-American" and "black" were not used in 1961. "Negro" wouldn't have raised an eyebrow.

[silverleaf]

LOL! His Mama was real proud of crossing race lines and embarrassing her parents. Even if she told the staff “african”, an official document used the term “negro”

But why are we arguing about a fake document? Read the following analysis of the document posted. Shades of Dan Rather/Mary Mapes fakery:

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/07/atlas-exclusive.html

[colorcountry]

Do you really think a black man in 1961 is going to self-identify as a “Negro” ?

Yes, that is precisely how they identified themselves in 1961. It was better and more modern than "colored" which had recently fallen into disuse.