Except that his official dad actually was from Africa. I could see somebody making a distinction.
Not in 1961.
The Hawaii DOH said they accept whatever the parents put down as their race.
In the 1962 Kenya census one of the racial categories was African.
A 1961 US Government manual said for the race of parents on birth certificates if the parent is colored and born in the US use the designation Negro but if the parent was not born in the US use the designation other nonwhite.