EACH OF THE PANELISTS at a discussion on public school integration held Tuesday in downtown Atlanta was an African-American lawyer who has done what might be called traditional civil rights work. But there was plenty of diversity in their opinions on how to respond to a June U.S. Supreme Court decision on the issue.

Tuesday’s panel was part of the annual convention of the National Bar Association, the nation’s oldest and largest black bar association. Headlined by NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Director-Counsel and President Theodore M. Shaw, the panel was charged with addressing a Supreme Court decision that struck down integration plans in Kentucky and Washington state.

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