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 of a scene from the film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. It features Melvin Van Peebles, as Sweetback, handcuffed, seated in front of two officers. Part of a car door is visible in the image's foreground.
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Catalog reference: 2012.82.10.98