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Entitled "Powell (center, wearing tie) was an aviation entrepreneur who advanced African-American participation in flying." 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. He was accepted to the University of Illinois electrical engineering program, but his studies were cut short when he volunteered and was shipped off to fight in WWI. He was wounded in a gas attack, and subsequently returned to the United States to finish his college degree. He was fascinated by flight and applied to the Army Air Corps and several other flight schools without success, until he was accepted at the Los Angeles School of Flight in 1928. He then founded the Bessie Coleman Aero Club, in honor of the first female black aviator who had died three years before. He also established a school to train mechanics and pilots, and published the Craftsmen Aero News, which he...