when was the term political correctness first used
Political correctness The term "politically correct" was used infrequently until the latter part of the 20th century. This earlier use did not communicate the social disapproval usually implied in more recent usage. In 1793, the term "politically correct" appeared in a U.S. Supreme Court judgment of a political lawsuit.[25] The term also had use in other English-speaking countries in the 1800s.[26] William Safire states that the first recorded use of the term in the typical modern sense is by Toni Cade Bambara in the 1970 anthology The Black Woman.[27][clarification needed] The term probably entered use in the United Kingdom around 1975.[8][clarification needed]