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Slide from the film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

1971

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A photographic slide of a scene from the film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. It features an image of two men portraying police officers interrogating a shirtless man. One of the officers holds the man's hair, while the other holds a gun to his ear.

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Catalog reference: 2012.82.10.107

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