This led to an organized mass protest and a riot the night of August 20 and 21 in San Diego that the San Diego Union dubbed the drag strip riot and socialists call one of the first major youth riots of the 1960s.
The event at the drag strip in San Diego on August 20 and 21 resulted in an organized protest and a disturbance, which was dubbed the drag strip riot by the San Diego Union and seen by socialists as one of the first major youth uprisings of the 1960s.