Elizabeth Cass, later Elizabeth Langley (born 1863) was a British seamstress and dress designer whose mistaken arrest for prostitution in 1887 became a minor cause célèbre.
Read more about Elizabeth Cass: Early Life, Mistaken Arrest, Perjury Case
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“A great many will find fault in the resolution that the negro shall be free and equal, because our equal not every human being can be; but free every human being has a right to be. He can only be equal in his rights.”
—Mrs. Chalkstone, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 2, ch. 16, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage (1882)