[Aurorales]

But if the question of race was not asked at the time of birth. My father tells me in 1964 and 1968, when giving the info for the Birth Certificate of myself and my sister, he was not asked the race of himself or wife or the baby. And, like I have stated before, it is not on our Birth Certificates.

(And yes, I understand I am talking about 64 and 68. Not 1961. But things probably couldn’t have changed that much)

So, unless when he requested the replacement document, they asked him some new questions, then again I ask, why is it on the new document????

[x]

Someone posted the birth certificate of a person born in 1930 here. It does give the "race" of the parents, but it looks as though the registrar took the parents at their word. If they said "White" he or she wouldn't write down "Caucasian" or vice versa or even make the races of a White and a Caucasian parent the same. So if the parents said "African" they most likely wouldn't change it to "Negro" or "Black" or "colored."

I don't know when the birth certificates stopped listing race, but a lot happened in the sixties so far as race and color were concerned. At some point in the 1960s states may have stopped requiring this information -- or they may have continued to keep track of the data for statistical reasons but kept it off of birth certificates and other legal papers issued to the public.