The main goals were to create equality in the public school system under Jim Crow laws and to establish a black institution of higher education as outlined in the Texas Constitution of 1876.
[3] At that time, Prairie View was the only school of higher education for black students in the state of Texas, which operated under the Hampton-Tuskegee model.
The Colored Teachers State Association of Texas pushed for better educational opportunities arguing against the belief that black minds were only suited for industrial training.
[2] Colored Teachers State Association of Texas helped to provide legal support to Heman Sweatt in his case to gain entrance into the [University of Texas] law school in the influential Sweatt v. Painter case.
The decision in favor of Sweatt in 1950 began breaking down the walls of segregation in higher education in Texas and helped lay the foundation for later cases against "Jim Crow" laws helping to lead to the overturning of Plessy v. Ferguson in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.