C.A.U Through the Years
These two historic institutions combined their resources to form Clark Atlanta University.
What is Clark College and Atlanta University?
This movement, founded by John Wesley, promoted the “born again” experience and aimed to achieve “perfectionism” in Christian life.
What is the Holiness Movement?
This acronym represents the unified educational consortium of Atlanta’s historically Black Colleges and Universities.
What is the AUCC (Atlanta University Center Consortium)?
This African American minister was instrumental in the founding of the Church of God in Christ (C.O.G.I.C.) and expanded its presence during the Great Migration.
Who is Bishop Charles Harrison Mason?
These two preachers worked together to plant COGIC churches in the South.
Who are Charles H. Mason and Charles Price Jones?
Which famous civil rights leader and scholar taught here?
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
This early Pentecostal leader helped spread Pentecostalism, which emerged from Holiness sects.
Who is William J. Seymour?
These five colleges currently make up the AUCC
What is Spelman College, Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, Morris Brown, and Morehouse School of Medicine?
This movement laid the foundation for Black Pentecostalism, emphasizing sanctification and holiness.
What is The Asuza Revival Church?
This is the year in which the main split in COGIC occurred.
What is 1968?
These are the two motto for Clark Atlanta University
What is "I'll Find a Way or Make One" and "Culture for Service"?
In this decade, disagreements arose between members of the Methodist Church and those who embraced Holiness beliefs, leading to further separations.
What are the 1880s?
This is the shared library among all AUCC institutions, known for housing important African American archives.
What is the Robert W. Woodruff Library(Woody)?
The practice of renting out these spaces helped facilitate the growth of Pentecostal beliefs among African American communities, leading to the establishment of numerous churches.
What are storefronts?
This church was established after the COGIC split.
What is the Church of God (Holiness)?
These are the founding years of three prominent institutions that came together to form one of Atlanta's historic universities
What is 1865, 1869, and 1988?
This organization was formed by a group of Methodists to promote Holiness teachings, eventually leading to a separation from traditional Methodism.
What is the National Camp Meeting Association for the Promotion of Holiness?
This year marked the founding of the Atlanta University Center Consortium.
What is 1929?
During the Great Migration, Bishop Mason sent these church leaders to help establish C.O.G.I.C. in areas where African Americans settled, greatly expanding the church’s influence.
What are bishops and elders?
After attending this significant religious event, Charles H. Mason began speaking in tongues.
What is the Azusa Street Revival?
Which president was instrumental in overseeing the merger?
Who is Dr. Thomas W. Cole, Jr?
Name three denominations or movements that are part of the Pentecostal tradition established in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Church of the Living God (1889)
Church of God in Christ
Assemblies of God
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Church of God of Prophecy
Apostolic Church
Church of Holiness
Church of Pentecost Free
Christian Zion Church of Christ (1905)
The Morris Brown College band gained national fame when it was featured in this popular 2002 film about a college marching band.
What is Drumline?
Unlike Black Methodists and Baptists, Black Pentecostals trace their origins to a movement initiated and led by this type of minister, reflecting their independent establishment.
What is a Black minister?
Charles H. Mason and Charles Price Jones left this denomination after their teachings on holiness were rejected.
What is the Baptist Church?