Magnet advocates argued that attractive schools produce integration without government coercion.

Evidence

As Senator John Glenn so eloquently stated, “The goal is to provide schools with superior education— education so attractive to all racial groups that integration will occur naturally, rather than as a result of a government requirement” (Archibald, 95). The more acceptable form of integration compared to “forced busing” there were 36 magnet schools within the school district which included 115 schools. — Marcy Crouch, Magnet Schools and Other Means of…, 40

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes contemporary school-choice and ‘integration by attraction’ debates about whether markets or mandates integrate schools.