Multiracial Groups Want Census Category

Sun., July 21, 1996

Compiled From Wire Services

Carrying signs that read “I’m proud to be me” and “I’ll choose my category,” a group of multiracial Americans held a rally Saturday to press the government to introduce a multiracial category for the 2000 census.

“To be proud of both your ancestries you need something like that. It’s not anything we should be ashamed of,” said Gwen Loftus. Loftus, an African-American married to a white man, had a “Yes, I’m her mother” sign on her daughter’s stroller.

Multiracial groups have been lobbying the federal government for a change in racial categories that appear on official and unofficial forms.

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