Thurgood Marshall School of Law
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The Thurgood Marshall School of Law is a part of Texas Southern University (TSU) in Houston, Texas. TSU is a historically Black university that grants undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees. The law school was established in 1947 by the state legislature in response to a lawsuit filed by Heman M. Sweatt, a Black student denied admission to the University of Texas School of Law. The law school was named in honor of Thurgood Marshall, the U.S. Supreme Court justice who successfully argued Sweatt's case before the Supreme Court. Marshall was a pivotal figure in the civil rights movement, known for his legal victories, including Brown v. Board of Education.12
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