[edge919]

It doesn’t really matter. Verna K.L. Lee and whoever crosschecked her pencil codes would have used No. 2 to classify African as Negro. The Natality Report from 1961 explains that anything that appeared even to only be partially Negro would have been coded Negro by default.

[hoosiermama]

Have no doubt that it was blank when she coded it. But if documentation was presented for amendment at a later time, they would not have been able to use a synonymous word but would have copied it (sic). Just giving a source where that “African” term was used to denote black/Negroid race...In African states on the Dutch trade route which includes Kenya.....not Mexico or France or mainland US...someone didn't just by chance use the same terminology that was used in Kenya. Doubt if even the forger would know that unless OTOH THEY were merging his Kenyan BC with the HI information.

[rxsid]

"It doesn’t really matter. Verna K.L. Lee and whoever crosschecked her pencil codes would have used No. 2 to classify African as Negro. The Natality Report from 1961 explains that anything that appeared even to only be partially Negro would have been coded Negro by default."

It appears as though your succinct statement has gone, either, unchallenged or unnoticed.

That is, of course, assuming Sr. was there (highly unlikely) to "self report."