Kelley House
Kelley House is located within Fox House at IUPUI's Campus Apartments on the Riverwalk.
A little history about Fox House...
Lillian Thomas Fox (1866-1917) was a journalist and an outspoken member of the Indianapolis community. She was Indianapolis' 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 patiencts and scholarships to assist indigent African Americans. Fox also organized the Indiana State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs in 1904.
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