The Women of Azusa Street
by Estrelda Alexander
Category: Biography & Autobiography

The Women of Azusa Street pays tribute to the women who played a vital role-which was typically overlooked or down-played in literature-in the 1906 Azusa Street Revival, an event that catapulted the then fledgling Pentecostal Movement into national prominence. The women, from a variety of racial and cultural backgrounds, and whose names remain largely unknown, were instrumental in initiating the revival, bringing it to fruition, and ensuring that its message spread around the nation as well as the world. The women whose stories are told herein: Anna Hall, Mable Smith, Neely Terry, Julia Hutchins, Lucy Farrow, Clara Lum, Florence Crawford, Lucy Featherman, Ophelia Wiley, Lillian Garr, Susie Valdez, Rosa de Lopez, Ardella Meade, May Evans, Daisy Batman, Jennie Moore Seymour, Emma Cotton, and Rachel Sizelove.