Frank Street Jr. (born 1943) is an American chess player who won the U.S. Amateur Championship in 1965. He was a member of the Takoma Park Chess Club, which included fellow members Larry Kaufman and Larry Guilden. In the 1960s, Street, along with National Masters Walter Harris and Ken Clayton, set the stage for the harnessing of Black talent in the Washington, D.C., area.

Street became a USCF Master in 1965.^[1] He initially received recognition by winning the U.S. Amateur Championship in 1965, and for many years thereafter, held the highest rating among African American players. He also won the club championship at the premier chess club, the Washington Chess Divan, by defeating Clayton. Street was the second African American chess player to earn the National Master title after Walter Harris. His picture was on the cover of the July 1965 issue of Chess Life magazine.^[2]

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• Frank Street rating card at FIDE
• Frank Street FIDE rating history at OlimpBase.org
• The Rising of the Black Star 2007.
• Black Chess Masters 2007.
• Chess Life Magazine.
• National Master Frank Street Jr.
• A Legendary Chess Zen Master.
• The Chess Drum A sketch of the legendary Frank Street.