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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 a group of bikers on motorcycles. The biker in the middle wears a striped collared shirt, long pants, jacket, and dark sunglasses. Another biker slightly in front of him wears a fringe jacket and cowboy hat and bows his head slightly.

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Catalog reference: 2012.82.10.81

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