IUPUI is Indiana's premier urban research university. The campus enrolls more than 30,000 students in 21 schools and academic units.
The Campus : Building and Location Namesakes
Lillian Thomas Fox
Fox House
Campus Apartments on the River Walk
Lillian Thomas Fox (1866 - 1917) was a journalist and an outspoken member of Indianapolis' African American community. She was Indianapolis's first African American female journalist. In 1891, she was an assistant editor for the local African American newspaper, the Indianapolis Freeman. In 1900, Fox became the first African American woman hired by a white-owned paper, the Indianapolis News, to write a regular news column.
In 1903, she founded the Woman's Improvement Club, which provided health care to tuberculosis patients and scholarships to assist indigent African Americans. Fox also organized the Indiana State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs in 1904.
