1342: Woke Aug 14, 2018

The word 'woke' as a pejorative has become fairly popular in the last decade, and in particular with the widespread use of the Internet, but it's use as a term for social awareness dates back much further. The earliest-known use is from 1962, found in a list of words one might come across in Harlem at the time. This indicates that 'woke' in this sense was used in presumably black communities even earlier, though at that time, there was much less of an ability for the word to enter popular lexicon than there is now.
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