claim: Two and a Half Men starred Tom Hanks.
evidence: The Communist Party USA , ideologically committed to foster a Socialist revolution in the United States , played a significant role in defending the civil rights of African Americans during its most influential years of the 1930s and 1940s .. In that period , the African-American population was still concentrated in the South , where it was largely disenfranchised , excluded from the political system , and oppressed under Jim Crow laws .. disenfranchised. Disfranchisement after Reconstruction era. Jim Crow. Jim Crow. By 1940 , nearly 1.5 million blacks had migrated out of the South to northern and midwestern cities and become urbanized , but they were often met with discrimination , especially among working-class ethnic whites with whom they competed for jobs and housing .. The labor struggle continued , and many unions discriminated against blacks .. Additional migration of another 5 million blacks out of the South continued during and after World War II , with many going to West Coast cities , where the defense industry had expanded dramatically and offered jobs .