12 Man drinking from a water fountain at an Oklahoma City street car station, 1939. Photo by Russell Lee courtesy of the Library of Congress. Integrate NYC’s “separate is still not equal” symbol. Example of de jure (in law) segregation: “Separate but Equal”— In 1896, the Supreme Court of the United States case Plessy v. Ferguson ruled that as long as separate facilities for sepa- rate “races” were equal, segregation did not violate the 14th Amendment. Example of de facto (in fact) segregation: Segregation in New York City schools— In 1954, the Supreme Court of the United States case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka ruled that segregated schools were unconstitutional and violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Today, across the nation, schools are more segregated than they were decades earlier. IntegrateNYC is a student-led organization working with students across the nation (IntegrateUS) to demand equitable access to resources and the opportunity to attend racially and culturally diverse schools “to better learn about ourselves and each other.”