"We really didn't expect that number," Claudette Bennett, the chief of the racial statistics branch at the Census Bureau, said in an interview today.
In this latest case, the compromise may have assuaged officials of traditional civil rights groups and parents of multiracial children, but at least one expert, Roderick J. Harrison, former head of the Census Bureau's racial statistics branch, believes the solution may have made racial and ethnic statistics far less reliable.
Nicholas A. Jones, chief of the bureau's racial statistics branch, said that given the likelihood that foreign-born people would identify themselves as German or Irish or Nigerian instead of black or white, the bureau might eventually encourage people to provide more detailed write-in answers to how they define themselves.
While not a publicly active proponent of racial integration, Mr. Branch worked on its behalf behind the scenes and was an occasional informal adviser to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, his daughter said.
Müller's principal resource in developing the resulting classification of religions was the comparative study of languages, from which he sought to demonstrate similarities in the names of deities, the existence of common mythologies, the common occurrence of important terms in religious life, and the likeness of religious ideas and intuitions among the branches of a racial group.
In this position, Vagins leads the office's civil rights advocacy efforts and develops pro-active strategies on pending federal legislation and executive branch actions concerning racial justice, employment discrimination, pay equity, voting rights, and disability rights.
Branch Rickey, an alumnus, broke the racial barrier in baseball.
A conversation about racial injustices also took place at Hillsong's Los Angeles branch last week.
The dismantling of racial segregation in the South was eventually produced by the political branches, not the Court.
The closing of the Emerson branch in 1969, part of the move toward racial integration, provoked a deep sense of sorrow in the black community here, a sense of loss that has not been fully voiced until lately.
