Rose Livingston (1876 – December 26, 1975), known as the Angel of Chinatown, was a suffragist who worked to free prostitutes and victims of sexual slavery.

With financial and social support from Harriet Burton Laidlaw and other noted suffragettes, as well as the Rose Livingston Prudential Committee, she worked in New York City's Chinatown and in other cities to rescue girls from forced prostitution, and helped pass the Mann Act to make interstate sex trafficking a federal crime.

She referred to herself as a missionary and worked nights looking for pre-teen and teenage girls who were forced into sexual slavery.

[11] Girls and women became sexual slaves by being physically kidnapped, drugged, or unknowingly lured into the industry with a promise of a job or an adventure.

[13][14] Livingston found that there was an auction on the Lower East Side of New York where girls and women were sold.

[18] Her modus operandi was to follow men that were sexual slavers, figure out what females were held captive, make friends with them, and encourage them to escape.

[17] She looked for enslaved girls in opium dens, dance halls, and bars,[12] particularly in New York City's Chinatown and the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

[3] She had a masculine looking face[4] and she wore short hair and men's clothing, which allowed her to blend in at dance calls and other night spots when she went in search of girls to rescue.

[6] Livingston described her brand of missionary work: I don't go in to visit these girls and give them a tract and say 'God bless you', and invite them around to take tea with me.

There are some girls that it might hard to help, but there are some little, fresh young things that have just been brought to Chinatown, and that you can sometimes reach in time to save them.

In a report by the League,[13] Miss Livingston sets forth the diabolical tactics of white slave rings in this country as she has seen them.

She suggests a remedy and sounds a warning to mothers and fathers.She offered solutions to the sexual slavery problem, particularly regarding girls and young women.

She suggested that cities hire plain-clothed police women to patrol vice-ridden districts to prevent girls from being led into slavery.

Livingston stated that she believed that this would dramatically reduce the likelihood of girls being kidnapped by avoiding the first false, reckless step—like getting into the car of a stranger.

[14] Before the Rose Livingston Committee was established, she received support from Miss Elizabeth Voss, whose father had been the city's District Attorney.

[21] The Rose Livingston Committee issued an annual report of the freed girls and convicted people who were the slaveholders.

About five feet tall and weighing about 90 pounds, she faced male procurers, or cadets, as she tried to rescue girls and women.

She had severe neuritis and persistent neuralgic pain due to a fracture of the alveolar process of the upper jaw bone.

Livingston helped pass the Mann Act, that made interstate sex trafficking a federal crime in 1910.

[18] In 1929, she was awarded a gold medal by the National Institute of Social Sciences, for her "unique work and indefatigable faithfulness for almost 30 years.

Sergeant Cram (Edith Claire Bryce) of the Peace House for her "deeds of courage without violence".