Director of the Bureau of the Budget, the ultimate authority on
government forms. In August 1969 the director announced a uniform
method for defining the races in federal statistics. The collectives
"Negro and Other Races," "All Other Rates," or "All Other" would be
acceptable to designate minorities; the terms "White," "Negro," and
"Other Races" would be acceptable in distinguishing between the
majority, principal minority, and other races.[22-57]

[Footnote 22-56: See, for example, the following
Memos: Evans for Judge Jackson, 1 Apr 63, and Mr.
Jordan, 3 Sep 64, sub: Racial Designations; Douglas
Dahlin for E. E. Moyers, 3 Sep 58, sub: Case
History of an OSD Action; James Evans for Philip M.
Timpane, 10 Aug 65, sub: Race and Color-Coding. See
also Memo for Rcd, Evans, 15 Aug 62, sub: Racial
Designations. All in DASD (CR) files.]

[Footnote 22-57: Bureau of the Budget, Circular No.
A-46, Transmittal Memorandum No. 8, 8 Aug 69.]

It was the use to which these definitions were put more than their
number that had concerned civil rights leaders since the 1950's. Under
pressure from civil rights organizations, some congressmen, and the
Office of the Secretary of Defense, the services began to abandon some
of the least justifiable uses of racial designations, principally
those used on certain inductees' travel orders, reassignment orders,
and reserve rosters.[22-58] But change was not widespread, and as late
as 1963 the services still distinguished by race in their basic
personnel records, casualty reports, statistical and command strength
reports, personnel control files, and over twenty-five other
departmental forms.[22-59] They continued to defend the use of racial
designations on the grounds that measurement of equal opportunity
programs and detection of discrimination patterns depended on accurate
racial data.[22-60] Few could argue with these motives, although
critics continued to question the need for race designations on
records that were used in assignment and promotion processes. When
public opposition developed to the use of racial entries on federal
forms in general, the President's Committee on Equal Opportunity
appointed a subcommittee in 1963 under Civil Service Chairman John W.
Macy, Jr., to investigate. After much delib