Hurdle House
1416 East 12th — Austin, Texas
History
Born in Greenville, Texas on August 12, 1886, Isaiah Quit “I.Q.” Hurdle was an African-American minister and public school educator. Hurdle grew up on a farm in a family of seventeen children. His father, A.J. Hurdle escaped from a plantation in Dangerfield, Texas during the Civil War and found sanctuary with a unit of Federal soldiers.
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In life and times
By 1920, I.Q. Hurdle moved to Austin to begin a 34 year career as a teacher and school administrator. Noteabley, Hurdle was the first black member of the National Education Association’s (NEA) Texas delegation in 1945. With no graduate schools in Texas for black students, he also led the fight for the passage of Texas House Bill 678—a bill that provided state funding for black students to attend out-of-state graduate programs.
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Heartbeat of the community
Hurdle’s legacy is one of faith and education for his community–a legacy that helps anchor East Austin in the past while building for the future.
