I found the race info at your site posted by DABIG. Looks like Martian isn’t an option. :-)
Thanks for the good info. And thanks to DABIG. IIRC DABIG lives in Hawaii. I wish he/she would get copies of some Hawaii newspaper articles.
“Births in the United States in 1961 are classified for vital statistics into white, Negro, American Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Aleut, Eskimo, Hawaiian and Part-Hawaiian (combined), and “other nonwhite.”
There was NO classification for “African” (or African-American)
http://www.nber.org/vital-statistics/historical/nat61_1.CV.pdf
Just so. There is more contemporary info there also.
Parents were to self-identify from the approved codes. Still are. Prior to HI becoming a state it was a little different. Once it became a state they had to go by the US Gov. regs for vital stats. They had to use the established codes.
I read very recently that a couple in HI was suing so that they didn’t have to have any race for parents or child listed anywhere in the birth records. They got in quite a snit about it. I forget how it played out.