In the latter 20th century, those with any degree of sub-Saharan African ancestry (which was virtually everyone who had been defined as coloured) were redefined as Black, with Asian and other non-White Bermudians defined by separate racial groups (although it also, in the 1960s, ceased to be the practice to record race on birth or other records). On Census returns, only in recent years have Bermudians been given the option to define themselves by more than one race (the 2000 Census gave respondents the options of "black", "white", "Asian", "black and white", "black and other", "white and other", "other", and "not stated"), although there was considerable opposition to this from many Black leaders who discouraged Black Bermudians from doing so.