[wideminded]

In the State of Hawaii, in the mid 1960’s, “African” was not used on state documents. “Negro” was.

I'd be interested to see what evidence you can find about this, although I would still wonder if this was formalized in 1961, when Hawaii had been a state for less than two years.

See #964.

[Darksheare]

See post 904...
D’oh!

[SaraJohnson]

I was alive in 1961 and quite aware of the elite’s racial terminology at the time. Negro was the way the racially classified Black people in official records.