Question: William Jennifer Powell is a pioneer aviator and civil rights activist, along with James Banning and the first woman of African-American and what descent, to hold a pilot license?

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Bessie Coleman: Bessie Coleman (January 26, 1892April 30, 1926) was an American civil aviator.  She was the first woman of African-American descent, and the first of Native American descent, to hold a pilot license.

Willa Brown: Willa Beatrice Brown (January 22, 1906 – July 18, 1992) was an American aviator, lobbyist, teacher, and civil rights activist.  She was the first African-American woman to earn her pilot's license in the United States, the first African-American woman to run for the United States Congress, the first African-American officer in the US Civil Air Patrol, and the first woman in the United States to have both a pilot's license and a mechanic's license.  A lifelong advocate for gender and racial equality in flight and in the military, Brown not only lobbied the U.S. government to integrate the U.S. Army Air Corp and include African Americans in the Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP), but also co-founded the Cornelius Coffey School of Aeronautics with Cornelius Coffey, which was the first private flight training academy in the United States owned and operated by African Americans.  She trained hundreds of pilots, several of whom would go on to become Tuskegee Airmen.

William J. Powell: William Jenifer Powell (July 27, 1897 – July 12, 1942) was an American engineer, soldier, civil aviator and author who is credited with promoting aviation among the African American community.  Along with Bessie Coleman and James Banning, he is recognized as a pioneer aviator and a civil rights activist.  Powell was optimistic about the prospects of African-Americans in aviation, and believed that their involvement in the industry would help end racial prejudice at a time of widespread segregation under the Jim Crow laws.

James Banning: James Herman Banning (November 5, 1900 – February 5, 1933) was an American aviation pioneer.  In 1932, James Banning, accompanied by Thomas C. Allen, became America's first black aviator to fly coast-to-coast.

Janet Bragg: Janet Harmon Waterford Bragg (born Jane Nettie Harmon) (March 24, 1907 — April 11, 1993) was an American amateur aviator.  She was the first African-American woman to hold a commercial pilot license.

Hazel Jane Raines: Hazel Jane Raines (April 21, 1916 – September 4, 1956) was an American pioneer aviator and flight instructor with the Civilian Pilot Training Program.  During World War II, she was part of the first group of United States women to fly military aircraft, which they did in a war zone for the civilian British Air Transport Auxiliary.  She was later a member of the civilian contract labor Women Airforce Service Pilots.  After the war, she taught instrument training in Brazil.  When President Harry S. Truman authorized the integration of women into the military, she served with Women in the Air Force and was based in Texas, Alabama, and finally London until her death.  Raines was the first woman in Georgia to earn a pilot's license, and has been inducted into both the Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame and the Georgia Women of Achievement.

Rakshya Rana: Rakshya Rana (Nepali: रक्षा राणा ) (Born 7 November 1967) is Nepal's first female pilot.  She was born on 7 November 1967 as daughter of (late) Ganga Rana and Noor Pratap JB Rana.  Rakshya got her training from Hoffman Pilot Center in Broomfield, Colorado for her private pilot license.  She then moved to Addison, Dallas, Texas where she completed the rest of the training and obtained her FAA commercial Pilot license with Multi-Engine and Instrument Rating in April 1988.  It took her 11 months in total to complete the course.  Rakshya was 24 years old when she flew professionally for the first time, with the domestic airlines Everest Air.

Private pilot: A private pilot is the holder of a private pilot license.  With a private pilot license (PPL), a pilot is allowed to fly aeroplanes of the category and class that the license designates.  Private pilots are not permitted to profit from any flight (except, in the USA, as denoted in [http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2014-title14-vol2/xml/CFR-2014-title14-vol2-sec61-113.xml 14 CFR 61.113).  In order to be compensated for flight services, a pilot must hold a commercial pilot license.

Sarla Thakral: Sarla Thakral (1914 – 15 March 2008) was the first Indian woman to fly an aircraft.  Born in 1914, she earned an aviation pilot license in 1936 at the age of 21 and flew a Gypsy Moth solo.  She had a four-year-old daughter.  After obtaining the initial licence, she persevered and completed one thousand hours of flying in the aircraft owned by the Lahore Flying Club.  Her husband P. D. Sharma whom she married at 16 and comes from a family which had 9 pilots encouraged her to achieve it.  While Sharma had been the first Indian to get his airmail pilot's license, flying between Karachi and Lahore; his wife would be first woman in India to attain her 'A’ license when she accumulated over 1000 hours of flying.

Neta Snook: Neta Snook Southern (February 14, 1896 – March 23, 1991) was a pioneer aviator who achieved a long list of firsts.  She was the first woman aviator in Iowa, first woman student accepted at the Curtiss Flying School in Virginia, first woman aviator to run her own aviation business and first woman to run a commercial airfield.  Yet "Snooky", as her friends called her, was fated to be remembered for her relationship to Amelia Earhart.  Her autobiography "I Taught Amelia to Fly" aptly captures the essence of her fame, she was forever linked to the Earhart mystique as her first instructor.

Supporting paragraphs: William J. Powell Bessie Coleman
Answer: Native American