Biden was referring to desegregation efforts in Wilmington Del as a teen at a movie theater and restaurant that refused to serve a black teammate
In 1987, Joe Biden said he was a teenage civil rights activist, then said he wasn’t. Now he says he was. Does he have a hazy memory, or is this all malarky?
theintercept.com
In previous statements, Biden and a former Delaware state president of the NAACP who backs his account, Richard “Mouse” Smith, both claimed that they protested outside the Rialto in 1965. Smith
told the Washington Postlast year that picketing the Rialto in 1965 with him was Biden’s first civil rights protest.