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
The information from these forms is assembled elsewhere and specialists trained in incomprehensible and arcane linguistic tricks churn them back out as a report.
That part of the US Code applies to what? To federal government reports? To state government reports? To personal reports?
There was not then, nor was there for two full decades a national standard for reporting "race" and it's a long term Conservative agenda item to ABOLISH reporting "race" in this country.
The dude was from Africa. This world has 14 primary haplogroups. In the future that might be more important than anything anyone has yet imagined.