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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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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 four men portraying law enforcement personnel on a balcony. Two if the men are dressed as police officers and hold guns. The other two portray detectives. One wears a suint and stands directly opposite a door, the other wears suspenders and stands beside it.

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Catalog reference: 2012.82.10.113

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