During the times of segregation, many different arguments were made to justify its existence. One major justification for segregation was the concept of separate but equal. Southern whites at the time reasoned that even though blacks as whites may have separate facilities and communities, as long as the conditions of both were equal, both races would be happiest among their own. However, the conditions for both races were not equal, schools, housing, hospitals, and other facilities being of lesser quality for African Americans. Another type of the justifications used were religious arguments, twisting passages in the Bible that state that God made each creature, “after his own kind”, to express the idea that people should reproduce and associate