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A 3 page summation of chapter 4 of Estrelda Y. Alexander's Black Fire, One Hundred years of African American Pentecostalism. No additional sources are cited.
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Los Angeles revival that he led in the early twentieth century. Alexander indicates that Seymour played a pivotal role in the movement, but also argues that his significance in the
movement was obscured by racial bias for seventy years. Alexander then relates Seymours biography and the factors, such as his exposure to various Afro-spiritual sects, that influenced his religious orientation
(Alexander 111)(All subsequent citations refer to this text). Seymours experiences in the north and the mid-west are described, relating how is arrived in LA in 1906 and describes his
association with the Holiness church and pastor Julia Hutchins (116). When Seymour was forbidden to continue preaching on the Holiness circuit, this event directly led to the circumstances that culminated
in the Bonnie Brae Street prayer meeting and the beginning of the revival (117). On April 9, 1906, seven people in attendance at the Bonnie Brae Street prayer meeting began
speaking in tongues. As the prayer meeting continued, over the course of several days, more and more people began to experience this gift of the Holy Spirit, which resulted in
the number of people attending the meeting to fill the parlor and then spill out to the porch and yard. Alexander then describes the principal characteristics and events
that distinguished the revival, which included renting a building that was once a livery stable, located at 312 Azusa Street (119). The first three-and-a-half years were the most intense, as
people came, day or night, to participate in this "unparalleled move of God" (119). Alexander offers a detailed account of the nature and activities of the Azusa Street congregation, describing
how they published their own newspaper and were completely egalitarian, making no distinctions of race, gender, age or social standing as to who was empowered by the Holy Spirit.
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