The code number “9” did NOT mean “unstated” in the federal data, as fraudulently claimed by Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse.
It meant “Other nonwhite.” See page 11 of the REAL 1961 Vital Statistics Instruction Manual, linked to above.
So they classified the father as ‘other, non-white’ because he refused the classification of negro, and insisted upon AFRICAN?
I guess if I was the clerk, I would have done the same.
And I think you are throwing the word fraudulently around rather loosely. As far as I can tell, the only frauds there are around here are the supporters of the greatest fraud of all time. And you know who that is.