Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
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 from the set of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. It features an image of Melvin Van Peebles, as Sweetback, sitting in the bushes. Two police officers can be seen in front of him.
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Catalog reference: 2012.82.10.87