Sunset Strip curfew riots

The Sunset Strip curfew riots, also known as the "hippie riots", were a series of early counterculture-era clashes that took place between police and young people on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California, United States, in 1966. == History == By the mid-1960s, The Sunset Strip had become a place dominated by young members of the hippie and rock and roll counterculture.