 Thurgood Marshall School of Law is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund and Association of American Law Schools.The history of TMSL can be traced back to a 1946 lawsuit implicating protections for racial minorities under the U.S. Constitution, "Sweatt v. Painter", brought by Heman M. Sweatt, and tried by Thurgood Marshall.The Texas Constitution mandated separate but equal facilities for whites and blacks.