[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.

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I'll co-sign your comment.

I went through colored/negro/afro-American to African American. In the 60s we went from Negro to black, as in black power and black panthers, but no afro or African. Also, racial designation was Negro. Which should be on a birth certificate.

Perhaps someone can explain if this was the case in Hawaii.

No one was called African unless they were born in Africa.