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Photograph of William Seymour was an African American minister, and an initiator of the Pentecostal religious movement.

Biography and collected sermons of William Seymour

A political cartoon titled, Summer Solstice Sees Strenuous Sects Sashaying from The Evening News, a local Los Angeles paper. Depicts people speaking in tongues as gibberish, holy rollers, and other people involved in emotional displays while the Holy…

The location of the Asuza Street Ministry. This became the home of Pentecostalism as a global movement.

Front page of The Apostolic Faith's first issue, September 1906

Image published in 1908. Obtained from http://jsr.as.wvu.edu/2002/stephens2.htm, image is now in the public domain. Members of the Azusa Credentialling Committee, except for the young girl.

Photograph of William Seymour and his wife, Jenny Evans Seymour. Published in the mid 19-teens. Image from http://www.ag.org/enrichmentjournal/199904/026_azusa_3.cfm, and is in the public domain.

San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906. Looking Down Sacramento Street, April 18, 1906.