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
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, being forcibly carried by two police officers. He wears long pants, a long-sleeved shirt, and vest. The officers, who are on either of his sides, carry him by the arms.
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Catalog reference: 2012.82.10.94