Nebraska 1929 ... [Commencement program for the University of Nebraska College of Law, including Zanzye Herterzene Hill, the first African American woman admitted to the bar in Nebraska]

Lincoln, Nebraska, 1929. With a portrait of Hill tipped to the inside front wrapper. Previously mounted in an album with remnants on verso of rear wrapper. With a portrait of Hill tipped to the inside front wrapper. Born in Yazoo City, Mississippi, Zanzye H. Hill (1906-1935) was the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Nebraska Law School and the first African American woman admitted to the bar in Nebraska. A published poet in campus publications and the only Black member of the university vesper choir, after graduation she taught at Tuskegee Institute and served as counsel to an Arkansas insurance company. She died an untimely death at the age of 29. (Inventory #: 372419)