Sunset Strip curfew riots

Sunset Strip curfew riots

The Sunset Strip curfew riots, also known as the "hippie riots," were a series of clashes that took place between police and young people on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, California, beginning in the mid-1960s and continuing through the early 1970s.

One such riot in the summer of 1966 provided the basis for the teen exploitation film, "Riot on Sunset Strip" — as well as for the Buffalo Springfield song, "For What It's Worth", which is often mistakenly labelled an antiwar protest song, and The Monkees song, "Daily Nightly", written by Michael Nesmith.

External links

* [http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj91/davis.htm Wild streets: American Graffiti versus the Cold War] International Socialism Journal, Issue 91, 2001


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