This book examines the lives of over twenty African American women who have been involved in the history of the Holiness-Pentecostal Movement in the United States. The title, God’s Image Carved in Ebony,” comes from a description of Amanda Berry Smith, one of the most well-known of these women, but it can be used to describe all of these women, as well as the many unknown or unrecorded African American women who have been involved in leading the Church. This particular group of women was empowered through the Holiness teaching of sanctification, which became later defined as the Baptism in the Holy Spirit. This doctrine allowed for people on the margins to better view themselves as people called by God into ministry, and thus fight against barriers of gender and race. These women went on to preach, evangelize, go into missions, found denominations, establish Pentecostalism, and plant churches by the hundreds. Their witness is inspiring, not only because of the barriers they overcame, but also from the work they accomplished.