[Regulator]

Taitz is right. Unless Hawaii was in another world then, the term would have been "Negro". The whole "African" thing came later in the 60's - early 70's when the search for a politically correct term was on.

But in 1960, everyone from the President on down said Negro.

Be very, very unusual if that term wasn't used.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Obama isn’t a Negro, African, Black or Colored. He is a Mulatto or Mixed race

[itsahoot]

But in 1960, everyone from the President on down said Negro.

There was a comedian during the Johnson administration making a living doing impressions of the president.

One of his funniest one liners was, "Just when I learned to say neeegurow(negro) they went and changed it to Black."

[JKeats]

...that might have even been regional. I never heard the classification “African” for blacks until the early 1990’s. I was quite well read, culturally sharp and lived different places within New York State.