 This perspective took anti-black sentiment for granted, because bigotry was widespread in the South after slavery became a racial caste system.In 1944, Associate Justice Frank Murphy introduced the word "racism" into the lexicon of U.S. Supreme Court opinions in "Korematsu v. United States", 323 U.S. 214 (1944).He stated that by upholding the forced relocation of Japanese Americans during World War II, the Court was sinking into "the ugly abyss of racism".