[muawiyah]

Dumb clerks usually fill out forms like these. You ought to see what the ordinary citizen does ~ did you know USPS employees a team of GENIUSES who do nothing but interpolate Change Of Address Orders to see where folks have moved so they can send their mail to them? Then, when it gets there they verify the new address and check with the folks who just moved in.

Then there are the addresses ~ handwritten, typed, printed or schmudgied on. Oh, yes, I can believe anything.

And you want what? That I think a mere clerk can understand what "race" someone is?

Bwahahahahahaha!

[Ladysforest]

From the United States 1961 vital stats:

This is part of the “code” page: Notice no value for “African” exists…..

PROCESSING VARIABLES:

Page 231 contains the requirements for “Race and color.”

“Births in the United States in 1961 are classified for vital statistics into white, Negro, American Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Aleut, Eskimo, Hawaiian and Part-Hawaiian (combined), and “other nonwhite.”

There was NO classification for “African” (or African-American)

http://www.nber.org/vital-statistics/historical/nat61_1.CV.pdf