The Pentecostal movement began with the preaching of W. J. Seymour, a self-educated African American traveling Holiness preacher originally from Louisiana, at the Azuza Street Revival of 1906–1909 in Los Angeles, and it would have far-reaching implications for American spirituality. While initiated by an African American preacher, the movement was an atypical interracial movement from which whites later withdrew.31 At Azuza, blacks, whites, Mexicans, and Asians alike sang and worshiped together: