And again we go over this stuff ~ in 1961 no one was mandated by any law to report "race", if asked or stated, in any particular way.
The correspondent. presumably the mother, provided the racial identifer (if anyone did). His baby daddy was not present having already abandoned his woman to go to Harvard.
In ancient times they'd said the god Mars must have impregnated her or something. Old, old story eh~!
What a heartbreak for the mother of the wandering girl. Obama is a lucky man, to have a grandmother like he did. Yet, with that grandmother's high status position in Hawaii -- a records clerk could bend a rule, perhaps. The grandmother surely would knew the post WWII rules regarding babies born to a non-citizen parent.
Still "African"? You'd have to show me some examples of concurrent use in this birth record context.