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Rose Livingston (circa 1885-?), known as the Angel of Chinatown, was a suffragist who worked to free prostitutes and victims of sexual slavery.
Together with Harriet Burton Laidlaw, Rose Livingston worked in New York City's Chinatown and in other cities to rescue young white and Chinese girls from forced prostitution, and helped pass the Mann Act to make interstate sex trafficking a federal crime. Livingston publicly discussed her past as a prostitute and claimed to have been abducted and developed a drug problem as a sex slave in a Chinese man's home, narrowly escaped and experienced a Christian conversion narrative.
Biography
She was born around 1885.
In 1912 while trying to rescue a prostitute she was severely beaten: "serious and permanent damage ... a fracture of the alveolar process of the upper jaw bone which caused severe neurities [sic] with persistent neuralgic pain both day and night ... likewise causing the loss of all the teeth of the upper jaw on one side of the face."
In 1914 she participated in one of the Suffrage Hikes from Manhattan to Albany, New York.
In 1929, she was awarded a gold medal by the National Institute of Social Science.
In 1934 she was found living in poverty, and a retirement fund was established for her.
In 1937 she was awarded a silver cup by Edith Claire Bryce (1880-1960) of the Peace House for her "deeds of courage without violence".