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At around 6 in the evening, on June 6, 1966,

Sidney B. Street left his apartment building in Brooklyn.

He walked about a block away to the corner of Lafayette and St. James,

and then he burned the American flag.

Nobody would cast Sydney Street as a flag burner.

He wasn't a hippie or a student radical.

He was a 51-year-old decorated World War II veteran who worked as a bus driver for the New York Transit Authority.

And he didn't have to go looking for an American flag to burn. He already owned two.

One crisp new one with 50 stars that he flew on national holidays and an older, faded, 48-star flag

that had once covered his father-in-law's casket.

That's the one that he chose to burn.

When he did it, he laid a piece of newspaper carefully on the ground.

And he lit the flag on fire with a match.

And he held it, still perfectly folded for as long as he could, before he laid the burning flag down on the piece of paper

so that it wouldn't touch the ground.

What makes a veteran, a patriot, burn the flag that he was once so proud to fly?

To answer that, the other thing you need to know is that Sydney Street was African American.

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