Chinatown’s Angry Angel

She might look like just a nice, gray-haired grandma, but Donaldina Cameron (shown in picture, front row, third from the left) was known as “Chinatown's Angry Angel” for a reason. Working in San Francisco from 1895 until her retirement 47 years later, this missionary waged war against the slave traders who imported Chinese girls to the United States for servitude and prostitution. They say she saved over 3,000 Chinese girls—no wonder they called her Lo Mo, Chinese for Beloved Mother, wh