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The Azusa Street Revival was a historic series of revival meetings that took place in Los Angeles, California. [1] It was led by William J. Seymour , an African-American preacher . The revival began on April 9, 1906, and continued until roughly 1915.
William Joseph Seymour (May 2, 1870 – September 28, 1922) was a Holiness Pentecostal preacher who initiated the Azusa Street Revival, an influential event in the rise of the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements, particularly Holiness Pentecostalism. He was the second of eight children born in an African-American family to emancipated slaves.
This is the root of the better known "Azusa Street Revival" in Los Angeles, California (1906) led by William J. Seymour, an African American student of Parham's.
Seymour traveled to Los Angeles where his preaching sparked the three-year-long Azusa Street Revival in 1906. [39] The revival first broke out on Monday April 9, 1906 at 214 Bonnie Brae Street and then moved to 312 Azusa Street on Friday, April 14, 1906. [40] Worship at the racially integrated Azusa Mission featured an absence of any order of ...
Jennie Evans Moore Seymour (March 10, 1874-July 2, 1936), was an African-American Holiness leader in the Azusa Street Revival. [1] She was one of the first seven persons to experience the phenomenon of speaking in tongues after meeting in a house where they prayed together on Bonnie Brae Street. [2]
Temple officials were concerned that the Azusa people might bring "wildfire and Holy Rollerism." [citation needed] Out of the Azusa Street Revival, black leaders and other minorities appeared on her pulpit, including Charles Harrison Mason, an African American and founder of the Churches of God in Christ, a significant Pentecostal leader. [193]
Emma Cotton (1877 – December 27, 1952) was an evangelist and preacher born of Creole descent in the U.S. state of Louisiana.She first appeared in history in 1906 during the Azusa Street Revival.
His book Azusa Street describes the events surrounding the Pentecostal revival. He authored six books, four pamphlets, over five hundred and fifty published articles, and one hundred tracts. Bartleman is best remembered for his chronicles of the 1906 Los Angeles revival. [2]