Sunset Strip curfew riots
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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 1969.
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.
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- Wild streets: American Graffiti versus the Cold War International Socialism Journal, Issue 91, 2001
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