(WOMEN'S HISTORY--PROFESSIONAL.) Law school graduation program for trailblazer Zanzye Hill. 3 printed pages, 5 x 4 inches, sewn into original card wrappers reading "University of Nebraska 1869-1929"; printed portrait laid down on inner wrapper, paid down on irregular fragment of a scrapbook leaf, otherwise minimal wear to program. Lincoln, NE, 8 June 1929
Zanzye Herterzena Hill (1906-1935) was born in Mississippi and raised in Lincoln, NE and was the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Nebraska law school. She later taught at Tuskegee Institute and was counsel for a Black-owned insurance firm before her untimely death. Offered here is the program for her law school graduation ceremony, naming her on the final page. Laid down on the inner wrapper is a printed portrait of Hill, clipped from an unknown source. The same portrait appeared the next day in the 9 June 1929 issue of the Lincoln Star when she was admitted to the Nebraska Bar. The program was removed decades ago from a scrapbook found in her birth state of Mississippi.
