Mary-Louise Hooper

Mary-Louise Fitkin was born on March 2, 1907, in Swampscott, Massachusetts,Ancestry.com. Social Security Death Index. Number: 111-36-7902; Issue State: New York; Issue Date: 1962.Ancestry.com. Oregon Death Index, 1903–98. County: Klamath Death Date: 14 Aug 1987 Certificate: 87-15495.Basil Miller, Susan N. Fitkin: For God and Missions. Digital ed. (Holiness Data Ministry, 2006):41, http://wesley.nnu.edu/wesleyctr/books/2601-2700/HDM2627.pdf the only daughter and second oldest child of Susan Norris Fitkin (1870–1951),Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census. Census Place: Manchester, Hartford, Connecticut; Roll: T623_138; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 199."Veteran Missions Head, Rev. Susan Fitkin, Dies", The Sun (Baltimore, MD) (October 20, 1951):9. an ordained pastor in the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene, and later the founding president of the Nazarene Women's Missionary Society (now Nazarene Mission International), and Abram Edward Fitkin (1878–1933),Ancestry.com. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917–1918. Registration Location: Kings County, New York; Roll: 1754592; Draft Board: 65.However, Fitkin's US Passport application on January 31, 1921 indicates he was born September 18, 1876. See Ancestry.com. U.S. Passport Applications, 1795–1925 [database on-line]. Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 – March 31, 1.Ancestry.com. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917–1918. Registration Location: Nassau County, New York; Roll: 1754388; Draft Board: 4.925 (M1490). a former evangelist and pastor who had become a businessman. Mary-Louise had three brothers: Abram, Willis "Bud" and Ralph.

From infancy Mary-Louise attended the Church of the Nazarene with her family."Nazarene", The Oakland Tribune (March 6, 1926):7. By the end of 1907 Mary-Louise Fitkin, her parents, and brother, Raleigh, moved to Brooklyn because of her father's increased business activities.Basil Miller, Susan N. Fitkin: For God and Missions. Digital ed. (Holiness Data Ministry, 2006):42, http://wesley.nnu.edu/wesleyctr/books/2601-2700/HDM2627.pdf In 1907 the Fitkin family attended the John Wesley Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene located at the corner of Saratoga Avenue and Sumpter Street, Brooklyn,Basil Miller, Susan N. Fitkin: For God and Missions. Digital ed. (Holiness Data Ministry, 2006):40, http://wesley.nnu.edu/wesleyctr/books/2601-2700/HDM2627.pdf then pastored by William Howard Hoople.Brooklyn Eagle (Saturday, 12 December 1896):8; E.D. Messer, comp., "Early Nazarene Leaders", The Preacher's Magazine (September 1933):296, http://wesley.nnu.edu/preachers_magazine/1933_09-10.pdf; W.T. Purkiser, Called Unto Holiness: The Story of the Nazarenes Vol. 2 (Kansas City, MO: Nazarene, 1983):70; Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac (1912):334.

Her younger brother, Willis, was born in 1908. By April 1910 the Fitkins lived in their own home on Wallis Avenue, Queens, New York.Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census. Census Place: Queens Ward 4, Queens, New York; Roll: T624_1065; Page: 9A; Enumeration District: 1279; Image: 735. While living here, her youngest brother, Ralph was born in 1912.

In December, 1919, Mary-Louise Fitkin organized the Do for Others Club, a boys' and girls' group for the Church of the Nazarene, whose purpose was to do whatever possible for the famine sufferers of India.Basil Miller, Susan N. Fitkin: For God and Missions. Digital ed. (Holiness Data Ministry, 2006):56, http://wesley.nnu.edu/wesleyctr/books/2601-2700/HDM2627.pdf

By January 1920 the Fitkin family resided at 271 Brooklyn Avenue, Brooklyn.Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census. Census Place: Brooklyn Assembly District 18, Kings, New York; Roll: T625_1172; Page: 7B; Enumeration District: 1103; Image: 1015. By December 1926 the Fitkin family lived at 8 Remsen Street, Brooklyn."Fitkin-Salisbury", The New York Times (December 29, 1926).Ancestry.com. New York Passenger Lists, 1820–1957. Year: 1926; Microfilm Serial: T715; Microfilm Roll: T715_3923; Line: 27; Page Number: 58.

Mary-Louise Fitkin attended Adelphi Academy at Lafayette Avenue, St. James Place and Clifton Place, Brooklyn, New York,Adelphi Academy, Annual Catalog (Ronalds Press, 1913):96. and after graduation, she studied at Stanford University"Fitkin-Salsbury", The New York Times (December 29, 1926).Stanford University, Alumni Directory and Ten-Year Book (Graduates and Non-Graduates), Vol. 4 (Published by the University, 1932):268.The Stanford Illustrated Review 28:6 (1927):299. for one year until June 1928."3 College Girls Have 171 Years Total", Greensburg Daily Tribune (June 30, 1955):19.

Mary-Louise Fitkin was married three times, and had one child, Suzanne Mary Salsbury.

On July 7, 1926, Mary-Louise accompanied her mother, Susan Norris Fitkin, on her first overseas trip as General President of the Nazarene Women's Missionary Society, which was a two-month tour of the British Isles and various European countries, including France; Switzerland; Austria; Germany; and Italy.Basil Miller, Susan N. Fitkin: For God and Missions. Digital ed. (Holiness Data Ministry, 2006):69ff, http://wesley.nnu.edu/wesleyctr/books/2601-2700/HDM2627.pdf Mary-Louise and her mother sailed from New York to Southampton, England, on the RMS Aquitania.Ancestry.com. UK Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878–1960. Class: BT26; Piece: 829; Item: 6. While in Scotland, Mary-Louise spoke at the inaugural District Nazarene Young People's Society Convention in the British Isles.Basil Miller, Susan N. Fitkin: For God and Missions. Digital ed. (Holiness Data Ministry, 2006):70, http://wesley.nnu.edu/wesleyctr/books/2601-2700/HDM2627.pdf They departed Cherbourg, France, for New York on the Aquitania on September 14, 1926.Basil Miller, Susan N. Fitkin: For God and Missions. Digital ed. (Holiness Data Ministry, 2006):72, http://wesley.nnu.edu/wesleyctr/books/2601-2700/HDM2627.pdf

At noon on June 14, 1927, Mary-Louise married Esley Foster Salsbury (born August 28, 1907, in Elgin, Manitoba, Canada; died June 13, 1993, in Los Angeles, California),Ancestry.com. California Death Index, 1940–1997. Place: Los Angeles; Date: 13 Jun 1993; Social Security: 564075824. who had become a naturalized US citizen on May 13, 1926,Ancestry.com. Honolulu, Hawaii, Passenger Lists, 1900–1953. Repository Name:National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); NARA Series:A3422; Roll:104. at "Milestones", the family summer home at 16–18 Corlies Avenue, Allenhurst, New Jersey, in a ceremony conducted by Rev. Chauncey David Norris (born July 23, 1884, in West Berkshire, Vermont; died January 16, 1961, in Dundee, Oregon),Ancestry.com. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917–1918. Registration Location: Mountrail County, North Dakota; Roll: 1819449; Draft Board: 0.Ancestry.com. U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942. The National Archives Pacific Alaska Region (Seattle); Seattle, Washington; Fourth Registration Draft Cards (WWII); State Headquarters: Oregon; Record Group Name: Records of the Selective Service System; Record Group Number: 147; Archive Number: 563991; Box Number: 93.Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census. Census Place: Berkeley, Alameda, California; Roll: 111; Page: 19A; Enumeration District: 298; Image: 183.0."Nazarenes of State to Hold Assembly Here", Berkeley Daily Gazette (May 14, 1928):6.Ancestry.com. Oregon Death Index, 1903–98. County: Yamhill Death Date: 16 Jan 1961. Certificate: 1290. a cousin of her mother, who was at that time pastor of the Church of the Nazarene at Berkeley, California."Fitkin-Salsbury", The New York Times (June 15, 1927)."Mary L. Fitkin Now Mrs. Salsbury: Salsbury – Fitkin", Special to The New York Times (June 13, 1927):20.

In early December, 1928, Mary-Louise Salsbury accompanied her mother on her second missionary tour to Mexico.Basil Miller, Susan N. Fitkin: For God and Missions. Digital ed. (Holiness Data Ministry, 2006):86, http://wesley.nnu.edu/wesleyctr/books/2601-2700/HDM2627.pdf

By August 1929 the Salsburys lived at 1928 Montgomery Street, Berkeley, California. On August 30, 1929, the Salsburys departed San Francisco for a cruise to Honolulu on the SS President Jefferson,Ancestry.com. Honolulu, Hawaii, Passenger Lists, 1900–1953. Repository Name: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); NARA Series:A3422; Roll:104. and returned to Wilmington, Los Angeles on the SS City of Los Angeles on September 27, 1929.Ancestry.com. California Passenger and Crew Lists, 1893–1957, Archive information (series:roll number): m1764:24.

By April 1930 the Salsburys lived with Susan Norris Fitkin in her four-bedroom home (built in 1927) at 894 Longridge Road, Oakland, California.Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census. Census Place: Oakland, Alameda, California; Roll: 104; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 123; Image: 521.0."894 Longridge Rd, Oakland, CA 94610", http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/894-Longridge-Rd-Oakland-CA-94610/24746996_zpid/ By 1931 E. Foster Salsbury was a vice-president and director of Pacific Freight Lines Corporation, Ltd., which was controlled by his father-in-law Abram Fitkin's American Utilities.Walker's Manual of Western Corporations (Walker's Manual Incorporated, 1931):176.

After a lengthy illness,"A.E. Fitkin Dead", The Wall Street Journal, (March 20, 1933). Hooper's father Abram Fitkin died on Saturday, March 18, 1933, in his apartment at the Savoy-Plaza Hotel"Utility Operator Dies", San Antonio Express (March 19, 1933):5.[https://web.archive.org/web/20101122132222/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,745423,00.html "Milestones, Mar. 27, 1933", Time (March 27, 1933)]"Abram E. Fitkin, Utility Operator, Dies At 57 New Jersey Financier Started Life As A Clergyman", The Sun (Baltimore, MD) (March 19, 1933):10."Fitkin Dies in New York", St. Petersburg Times (March 18, 1933):2. Fitkin left an estate estimated at $250,000,000."ABRAM FITKIN DIES; MADE $250,000,000; Left Pulpit at 21, Became a Bookkeeper and Later Led in Public Utilities. A NOTED PHILANTHROPIST Founded Hospital in New Haven and Set Asida $500,000 for the Study of Children's Diseases", The New York Times."By-the-Bye in Wall Street", The Wall Street Journal (April 3, 1933).Aylmer Vallance, Very Private Enterprise: An Anatomy of Fraud and High Finance (Thames and Hudson, 1955):174. This is {{Inflation|US-GDP|250,000,000|1933|fmt=eq|r=-8}}.{{Inflation-fn|US-GDP}}

On December 7, 1933, the Salsburys' only child, Suzanne Mary Salsbury was born in Berkeley, California.Ancestry.com. California Birth Index, 1905–1995. Birthdate: 7 Dec 1933; Birth County: Alameda.Ancestry.com. New York Passenger Lists, 1820–1957. Year: 1938; Arrival: New York , United States; Microfilm Serial: T715; Microfilm Roll: T715_6196; Line: 26; Page Number: 84."Suzanne Cogley", {{cite web |url=http://www.chiloquinarts.com/?page_id=2313 |title=Suzanne Cogley, Two Rivers Gallery « Two Rivers Art Gallery in Chiloquin, Oregon |accessdate=2011-01-30 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708144253/http://www.chiloquinarts.com/?page_id=2313 |archivedate=2011-07-08 }}

In early October, 1935, Mary-Louise accompanied her mother on a mission trip to Latin America via the Panama Canal, and included visits to Guatemala, Haiti, Bahamas, and Colombia. While in Cobán, Mary-Louise organized the first Young Woman's Missionary Society at the Nazarene Girls' School.Basil Miller, Susan N. Fitkin: For God and Missions. Digital ed. (Holiness Data Ministry, 2006):103ff., http://wesley.nnu.edu/wesleyctr/books/2601-2700/HDM2627.pdf Mary-Louise Salsbury wrote the story of this visit in a booklet, entitled Other Americas, published at her mother's expense with the proceeds going to the W.F.M.S.Basil Miller, Susan N. Fitkin: For God and Missions. Digital ed. (Holiness Data Ministry, 2006):103, http://wesley.nnu.edu/wesleyctr/books/2601-2700/HDM2627.pdf They returned to Los Angeles on November 11, 1935, after a six-day voyage in first class on the Santa Elena from San José, Guatemala.Ancestry.com. California Passenger and Crew Lists, 1893–1957.

During the Great Depression, E. Foster Salsbury, then living in Orinda, California, had a vision for "a cheap and cheerful vehicle that would propel the country forward to prosperous times","Salsbury Superscooter 85- 1947", http://lanemotormuseum.org/salsbury-superscooter-85-1947 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727013809/http://lanemotormuseum.org/salsbury-superscooter-85-1947 |date=2011-07-27 }} and with Austin Elmore invented the Salsbury Motor Glide,."Classic: Salsbury 1949", American Motorcyclist (April 1995):103.Colin Shattuck, and Eric Peterson, "Chapter 1: The Evolution of a Revolution", Scooters: Red Eyes, Whitewalls and Blue Smoke (Speck Press, 2005):14–16. a small scooter built initially in the back of a plumbing and heating shop in Oakland, California.Mary Anne Long, "From Scooter to Scooterist: A Cultural History of the Italian Motorscooter", A Senior Thesis Presented To Prof. Anne Cook Saunders (December 17, 1998):6, http://www.bdragon.net/pdf/scooter_history.pdf{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Salsbury applied for a US patent for the Motor Glide in April 1936.E.F. Salsbury, "MOTOR VEHICLE", US Patent number: 2111691; Filing date: 7 Apr 1936; Issue date: 22 Mar 1938, http://www.google.com.au/patents?hl=en&lr=&vid=USPAT2111691&id=qXddAAAAEBAJ&oi=fnd&dq=%22Foster+Salsbury%22&printsec=abstract#v=onepage&q=%22Foster%20Salsbury%22&f=false {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628185153/http://www.google.com.au/patents?hl=en&lr=&vid=USPAT2111691&id=qXddAAAAEBAJ&oi=fnd&dq=%22Foster+Salsbury%22&printsec=abstract#v=onepage&q=%22Foster%20Salsbury%22&f=false |date=28 June 2011 }} The Salsbury Motor Corporation continued manufacturing motor scooters in Inglewood, California, until 1951.,Colin Shattuck, and Eric Peterson, "Chapter 1: The Evolution of a Revolution", Scooters: Red Eyes, Whitewalls and Blue Smoke (Speck Press, 2005):14–16. "And the CVT's legacy lives on. Almost every new scooter built today uses Salsbury's basic design".Hugo Wilson, (1995). "The A-Z of Motorcycles", in The Encyclopedia of the Motorcycle (London: Dorling Kindersley):165. Foster Salsbury also invented a mobile commode in 1936.Esley Foster Salsbury, "MOBILE COMMODE", US Patent number: 2078415; Filing date: 24 Feb 1936; Issue date: 27 Apr 1937, http://www.google.com.au/patents?hl=en&lr=&vid=USPAT2078415&id=nm5dAAAAEBAJ&oi=fnd&dq=%22Foster+Salsbury%22&printsec=abstract#v=onepage&q=%22Foster%20Salsbury%22&f=false {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628185141/http://www.google.com.au/patents?hl=en&lr=&vid=USPAT2078415&id=nm5dAAAAEBAJ&oi=fnd&dq=%22Foster+Salsbury%22&printsec=abstract#v=onepage&q=%22Foster%20Salsbury%22&f=false |date=28 June 2011 }}

By August 1938 the Salsburys divorced, with Foster Salsbury marrying Florence Johnson Fleming, a widow with two children, who was also the sister of William E. Johnson Jr."William E. 'Bill' Johnson, Jr.: Pioneer West Coast Importer", American Motorcyclist (May 1962):12. In 1938 Mary-Louise and Suzanne travelled to Germany.

By August 1938 Mary-Louise had married Dr. Karl Josef Deissler (born June 29, 1906, in Heidelberg, Germany; died August 15, 1998, in Bern, Switzerland),On August 4, 1938 Mary-Louise and Karl Deissler are listed in the passenger list on the SS Hamburg sailing from Hamburg to the USA. Mary-Louise's passport was issued in the name of Deissler on February 3, 1938 in Washington, D.C. See Ancestry.com. New York Passenger Lists, 1820–1957. Year: 1938; Arrival: New York , United States; Microfilm Serial: T715; Microfilm Roll: T715_6196; Line: 26; Page Number: 84.James Terry White, ed., The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 27 (University Microfilms, 1967):143Ancestry.com. Social Security Death Index. Number: 327-20-2392; Issue State: Illinois; Issue Date: Before 1951. a German physician,Ancestry.com. New York Passenger Lists, 1820–1957. Year: 1931; Microfilm Serial: T715; Microfilm Roll: T715_5042; Line: 1; Page Number: 38. who graduated from the University of Heidelberg, who had fled Germany for the USA in September 1931 because of his liberal ideas and fears of Nazi persecution,Karl J. Deissler, Wie ein Gärtner – Gedanken zur Rehabilitation Drogensüchtiger Sammlung von Artikeln und Referaten (Neuland, 1. Auflage 2005), see [https://web.archive.org/web/20060602231442/http://www.neuland.com/index.php?s=buc&s2=tit&bnr=000246] and had been a fellow of the Mayo Clinic from 1931 to 1935.F. Fredersdorf, "Synanon in Germany: An Example of a Residential Self-help Organization for Drug Dependent Individuals", International Journal of Self Help and Self Care 1;@ (1999–2000):131 – 143. By November 1935 Dr. Deissler was practising as a physician in the Wakefield Building at 426 17th Street, Oakland, California."The Wakefield Building", 2011 Huntsman Architectural Group, http://www.huntsmanag.com/sectors/cre/wakefield/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110712231749/http://www.huntsmanag.com/sectors/cre/wakefield/ |date=2011-07-12 }}"The Wakefield Building: 426 17th Street, Oakland, CA 94612", http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/16350925/426-17th-Street-Oakland-CA/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713232051/http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/16350925/426-17th-Street-Oakland-CA/ |date=2011-07-13 }} By August 1938 the Deisslers resided in a five-bedroom home built in 1937 at 50 Sotelo Avenue, Piedmont, California,California Voter Registrations, 1900–1968. Alameda County>1938> Roll 42>692."50 Sotelo Ave, Piedmont, CA 94611", http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/50-Sotelo-Ave-Piedmont-CA-94611/24827508_zpid/ "an isthmus of white wealth",Paul Hendrickson, The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War (Alfred A. Knopf, 1996):67. and the "city of millionaires",Soren C. Roinestad, A Hundred Years with Norwegians in the East Bay (S.C. Roinestad, 1963):1.Evelyn Craig Pattiani, Queen of the Hills: The Story of Piedmont, a California City (Academy Library Guild, 1953). where the Deisslers would live together until at least August 1942.California Voter Registrations, 1900–1968. Alameda County>1942>Roll 53>929.

When her mother needed to visit the Territory of Hawaii in April 1940 due to her ill health, Mary-Louise was again her travel companion,Basil Miller, Susan N. Fitkin: For God and Missions. Digital ed. (Holiness Data Ministry, 2006):95f., http://wesley.nnu.edu/wesleyctr/books/2601-2700/HDM2627.pdf travelling first class on the SS Matsonia from San Francisco to Honolulu on April 19, 1940.Ancestry.com. Honolulu, Hawaii, Passenger Lists, 1900–1953. Repository Name: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); NARA Series:A3422; Roll:217.

When Dr. Deissler was excluded from the US western defense area on September 4, 1942, until November 17, 1943, as an enemy alien,"Army Lifts Two Exclusion Orders", The Long Beach Independent (November 25, 1943):16. Mary-Louise and her daughter lived in Illinois. In November 1944 Dr. Deissler resided at the home of his mother-in-law, 894 Longridge Road, Oakland, however Mary-Louise was not registered as living there at that time.California Voter Registrations, 1900–1968. Alameda County>1944> Roll 61>441. The Deisslers divorced in 1946,"Doctor Ordered to Pay Support", Oakland Tribune (November 11, 1962):3. and Mary-Louise and Suzanne moved to Carmel, California. Dr. Deissler married Dorothea D. Bickel (born about 1914) on December 29, 1947, in Reno, Nevada, had two children, Erika (born February 28, 1947, in San Francisco),Ancestry.com. California Birth Index, 1905–1995. Birthdate: 28 Feb 1947; Birth County: San Francisco. and Karl Peter (born July 30, 1948, in San Francisco; died November 22, 1966, in Pomona, California),Ancestry.com. California Birth Index, 1905–1995. Birthdate: 30 Jul 1948; Birth County: San Francisco."Deaths", Oakland Tribune (November 25, 1966):52D.Ancestry.com. California Death Index, 1940–1997. Place: Los Angeles; Date: 22 Nov 1966; Social Security: 572782027. and divorced on October 1, 1962."Divorces Granted", Oakland Tribune (October 1, 1966):D35."Doctor Ordered to Pay Support", Oakland Tribune (November 14, 1962):3. The Deisslers lived in Orinda, California, in a home they bought from the noted psychoanalyst Erik Erikson.

On December 26, 1947, Mary-Louise married Clifford Ison "Cliff" Hooper, Sr., (1917–2001), an African American widower with two infant sons, whom she had met while campaigning for the NAACP, in Seattle, Washington. Hooper, a former journalist and circulation manager with the Evansville Argus, the "city's only African American newspaper" that operated from June 1938 to October 1943; who had served in Civilian Conservation Corps in Indiana from 1935 to 1940, rising to the rank of Field Leader and First Sergeant; and had served in the US Army from June 1941, eventually being promoted to the rank of captain during World War II after postings in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Ireland, and California. They married in Seattle, as Washington was one of the few states without Anti-miscegenation laws that banned inter-racial marriages.Ancestry.com. Honolulu, Hawaii, Passenger Lists, 1900–1953. Repository Name:National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); NARA Series:A3422; Roll:258. However, after a year of marriage, the Hoopers separated and were divorced in 1949. Cliff Hooper later became an artist, an activist, and a community leader, who co-founded the Negro Voters League, "a radical organization dedicated to the black power cause", and also promoted the black power agenda by being a co-editor and writing a column for the Afro American Journal, a local publication that served the black community.[Julia Swan, "CLIFF HOOPER, SR. (1917–2001)" https://www.blackpast.org/aaw/hooper-sr-cliff/] In 1970 his book "Black father black faith", a "meditation on racism in American society" was published,"Seattle Author Describes Black Experience", The Spectator [Seattle University] (April 28, 1970):4. [https://scholarworks.seattleu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2212]{{Dead link|date=November 2023|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}} and by 1986 he wrote "A Black View of US American History" that "focused on racism and anti-Black legislation throughout American history".

By June 1950 Mary Louise had become a Quaker, and had moved to Carmel, California,Ancestry.com. New York Passenger Lists, 1820–1957. Year: 1952; Microfilm Serial: T715; Microfilm Roll: T715_8213; Line: 14; Page Number: 318. where her daughter, Suzanne, attended the California College of Arts and Crafts in Berkeley, California, and in December 1950 married artist Lloyd David Cogley (1917–1992),Ancestry.com. Oregon Death Index, 1903–98. County: Klamath. Death Date: 2 Feb 1992. Certificate: 92-02524."Paintings and Poetry by Suzanne Cogley", {{cite web |url=http://www.cogleyart.com/sueart.html |title=Expressions of the life of artist Suzanne Cogley |accessdate=2011-01-30 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708174303/http://www.cogleyart.com/sueart.html |archivedate=2011-07-08 }} and they subsequently had five sons. On October 18, 1951, Hooper's mother, Susan Norris Fitkin died in Oakland."Mrs A.E. Fitkin, 81, Missionary, Writer", The New York Times (October 20, 1951).

In September 1952 Hooper returned to New York after sailing from Rotterdam on the SS Nieuw Amsterdam. Hooper returned to Stanford University in 1953 to complete her degree, majoring in German,Ancestry.com. U.S. School Yearbooks Index. Quad Yearbook (Stanford University, 1955). Stanford University > 1955 > 263 graduating with summa cum laude honors in June 1955. In May 1956 Hooper was elected to membership of the Stanford chapter of Phi Beta Kappa."Stanford Phi Beta Kappa Elects 17 Peninsulans", San Mateo Times (San Mateo, CA) (May 26, 1956):14.Letter from Ethel Ray Nance to W. E. B. and Shirley Du Bois (June 7, 1956): http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b145-i292

Mary-Louise Hooper was committed to opposing racial injustice wherever she found it, saying: "the Freedom Struggle is one – Mississippi, South Africa."David L. Hostetter, "Movement Matters: American Antiapartheid Activism and the Rise of Multicultural Politics", Ph.D. dissertation, Graduate School of the University of Maryland (2004):30, https://byrdcenter.academia.edu/DavidHostetter/Papers/220331/Movement_Matters_American_Antiapartheid_Activism_and_the_Rise_of_Multicultural_Politics Before 1955 Hooper was "involved in interracial work in California" with the Council for Civic Unity (CCU),Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo, "Council for Civic Unity, San Francisco", Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Associations, http://www.bookrags.com/tandf/council-for-civic-unity-san-tf/Shirley Ann Wilson Moore, "California Council for Civic Unity", Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Associations, http://www.bookrags.com/tandf/california-council-for-civic-unity-tf/Kenneth Burt, "California Federation for Civic Unity" (August 7, 2010), http://kennethburt.com/blog/?p=807 "the premier interracial organization working against discrimination in San Francisco, [whose] aim was to end discrimination in housing, employment, health, recreation, and welfare";Paul T. Miller, "San Francisco (California) Race Riot of 1966", in Encyclopedia of American Race Riots, ed. Walter C. Rucker and James N. Upton (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007):583. the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)."Mary-Louise Hooper", African Activist Archive, http://africanactivist.msu.edu/image.php?objectid=32-131-18D"About Mary-Louise Hooper, 1961", Africa Defense and Aid Fund of the American Committee on Africa, http://kora.matrix.msu.edu/files/50/304/32-130-B6F-84-al.sff.document.acoa000261.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720004815/http://kora.matrix.msu.edu/files/50/304/32-130-B6F-84-al.sff.document.acoa000261.pdf |date=2011-07-20 }}

Mary-Louise Hooper, who was a Life Member of the NAACP, who had been "long active in volunteer work to better inter-racial relations", was also "an active supporter of African struggles against colonialism and apartheid"."Mary-Louise Hooper with the FLN underground", http://africanactivist.msu.edu/image.php?objectid=32-131-30C After a three-month tour of South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria, with a group of Quakers in 1955, Hooper moved to South Africa later that year, eventually buying a home in Durban, South Africa."Mary-Louise Hooper", http://africanactivist.msu.edu/image.php?objectid=32-131-18D Hooper supported the African National Congress,William Henry Robinson, comp., Nommo: An Anthology of Modern Black African and Black American Literature (Macmillan, 1972):68. and was described as "the only white person to ever work inside the African National Congress"."Woman Explains South African Defense Fund", Modesto Bee (Modesto, CA) (November 25, 1957):14.Later other white people became members of the ANC, including Joe Slovo and Albie Sachs, both of whom served as members of the ANC National Executive Committee, and Barbara Hogan, Ben Turok, and Marion Monica Spark."Hooper Tells of Opposition to Apatheid", California Tech (Pasadena, CA) (February 14, 1963):1.American Committee on Africa, Africa Today 7–8 (Indiana University Press, 1960):15, 50.

Returning to the USA by June 1956 to seek permanent residence in South Africa, in San Francisco Hooper met with her friend African-American civil rights activist Ethel Ray Nance, secretary of the San Francisco branch of the NAACP; and, a week later, met with American civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois in New York, with credentials from Chief Luthuli "authorizing her to act for him with the Committee on Africa". Travelling to London, England, through the influence of Du Bois,[http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b145-i330 Letter from W. E. B. Du Bois to Kwame Nkrumah, ca. June 1956] Hooper met Trinidadian Pan-Africanist, journalist, and author George Padmore, who in turn wrote her a letter of introduction to former revolutionary Kwame Nkrumah, then Prime Minister of Gold Coast, who later became the first Prime Minister and President of Ghana, and would lead the Gold Coast to independence from Britain in 1957.Mary-Louise Hooper to W.E.B. Du Bois, (August 27, 1956) from Lagos, Nigeria: http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/pageturn/mums312-b145-i234 Hooper met with Nkrumah at least 5 times in the Gold Coast in 1956. Hooper also met with anti-apartheid activist Bishop Trevor Huddleston on that trip to London. By late August 1956 Hooper was in Lagos, Nigeria en route to her return to South Africa.

On her return to South Africa, Hooper continued to campaign for the abolition of apartheid, and worked as a volunteer aide and secretary to ANC president Chief Albert Luthuli,"Chief Albert Luthuli and Mary-Louise Hooper", http://africanactivist.msu.edu/image.php?objectid=32-131-30A"African Activist Archive Project Launches New Website", (February 12, 2009), http://allafrica.com/stories/200902120915.htmlSouth African Democracy Education Trust, The Road to Democracy in South Africa: 1960–1970, Vol. 1 (Zebra, 2004):443, 558.Ismail Meer, A Fortunate Man (Zebra Press, 2002):191).Sipho Khumalo, The Quaker who Became Luthuli's Assistant", The Mercury (South Africa) (November 24, 2010),{{Cite web |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-242749631.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=17 February 2011 |archive-date=5 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105101249/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-242749631.html |url-status=dead }} and was seen as a "fairy godmother" to the ANC, providing financial support, transportation in her "Congress Special" sedan, and hosting secret ANC meetings in her home.Robert Trent Vinson, Albert Luthuli. (Ohio University Press, 2018). Ohio Short Histories of Africa series. Hooper was active in providing financial assistance and other support for those tried during the Treason Trial."South Africa Frees U.S. Woman Tied to Racism Foes", The Stars and Stripes, (March 17, 1957):2."Mary-Louise Hooper and Monty Naicker at the Treason Trial", http://africanactivist.msu.edu/image.php?objectid=32-131-30B By January 1957, Hooper had moved to Hillbrow,Mary-Louise Hooper, "We Shall Not Ride: The Johannesburg Bus Boycott", Africa Today 4:6 (November–December 1957):13–16. a suburb of Johannesburg.Letter from Mary-Louise Hooper to W. E. B. Du Bois (ca. February 1957): http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b148-i156

On March 10, 1957, Hooper was arrested and imprisoned for five days in what she described as "degrading and humiliating" conditionsFriends Journal, Vol. 3 (1957). in the Fort Prison in Johannesburg."Covering the International Scene", The Afro American (March 9, 1957)5.Africa Report, Vols. 1–5 (African-American Institute, 1971). Despite being granted permanent visa status by February 1957, Hooper was ordered to be deported from South Africa after being accused of assisting South African "negroes"."DEPORTATION ORDERED; New York Woman Had Aided South African Negroes", Special to The New York Times (March 13, 1957):24. Hooper was freed by the Rand Supreme Court on a writ of habeas corpus,"WRIT AIDS AMERICAN; Woman Fights Deportation From South Africa", The New York Times (March 15, 1957).Africa Bureau (London, England, "Unlawful Detention of American Citizen", Africa Digest 4 (Africa Publications Trust, 1957):197.Newsweek 49, Part 2 (1957):56. and later awarded damages, which she donated to the ANC.Africa Bureau (London, England), "Damages Awarded to American Citizen", Africa Digest 5 (Africa Publications Trust, 1957):66. On May 14, 1957 Eben Dönges, the Interior Minister, ordered her deportation as he believed her presence in South Africa was not in the public interest.South Africa Supreme Court, Southern Rhodesia High Court, Zimbabwe High Court, Southwest Africa High Court, Namibia Supreme Court, The South African Law Reports: Decisions of the Supreme Courts of South Africa, Vol. 2 (Juta and Co., 1958):152–158.G.A. Natesan, The Indian Review 58 (Natesan & Co., 1957):287). After fleeing South Africa via Rhodesia at the end of May 1957,George H. Favre, "White Complacency Seen in South Africa: Inroads on Civil Rights Summary Arrests Hit Africans Befriended Threat of Violence Looms", The Christian Science Monitor (June 28, 1957):2.David L. Hostetter, "Movement Matters: American Antiapartheid Activism and the Rise of Multicultural Politics", Ph.D. dissertation, Graduate School of the University of Maryland (2004):44, https://byrdcenter.academia.edu/DavidHostetter/Papers/220331/Movement_Matters_American_Antiapartheid_Activism_and_the_Rise_of_Multicultural_Politics she was excluded from re-entry by the South African government. She remained in correspondence with anti-apartheid activists, such as Nokukhanya Bhengu, wife of Albert Luthuli. They exchanged letters for decades.{{Citation |last=Kelly |first=Jill E. |title=Nokukhanya Luthuli |date=2024-08-21 |work=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History |url=https://oxfordre.com/africanhistory/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.001.0001/acrefore-9780190277734-e-1442 |access-date=2025-01-24 |language=en |doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.1442 |isbn=978-0-19-027773-4|url-access=subscription }}

Hooper served as one of the three official Africa National Congress delegates and the only American delegate to the first All-African Peoples' Conference in December 1958 in Accra, Ghana.George M. Houser, "A Report on the All African People's Conference Held in Accra, Ghana: December 8–13, 1958", (1958):1, http://kora.matrix.msu.edu/files/50/304/32-130-D84-84-al.sff.document.acoa001020.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720005618/http://kora.matrix.msu.edu/files/50/304/32-130-D84-84-al.sff.document.acoa001020.pdf |date=2011-07-20 }}"African Defense Fund Talk Due", Star-News (Pasadena, CA) (March 18, 1959):2–7.C. J. Driver and Anthony Sampson, Patrick Duncan: South African and Pan-African (James Currey Publishers, 2000):157.Scott Thomas, The Diplomacy of Liberation: The Foreign Relations of the African National Congress since 1960 (I.B.Tauris, 1996):45. Hooper was also a delegate to the 2nd Congress in Tunis, Tunisia in January 1960,"Mary Hooper to Speak at FDR Club Meet", Star-News (Pasadena, CA) (April 19, 1960):10. and was one of only two American observers at the Third All-African Peoples' Conference in Cairo in March 1961,George M. Houser, "At Cairo – The Third All-African Peoples' Conference", Africa Today *:4 (April 1961):11. having been denied delegate status despite being appointed as an ANC representative by Chief Luthuli.George M. Houser, "Draft Report on the Third All African People's Conference Held in Cairo from March 25 to 30, 1961", (1961):2, http://kora.matrix.msu.edu/files/50/304/32-130-FBD-84-GMH%20ACOA%20AAPC%20opt.pdf By 1961 Hooper had made at least one trip of at least two months duration to Africa, visiting 24 African countries including Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Congo, Cameroun, Ethiopia, North Africa, and nearly all of East, Central and Southern Africa. Hooper numbered among her personal friends President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana; Tom Mboya of Kenya, Chief Luthuli, Alan Paton and Oliver Tambo of South Africa; Bishop Trevor Huddleston of Tanganyika, Kenneth Kaunda of Northern Rhodesia, Ahmed Boumendjel of Algeria and Joshua Nkomo of Southern Rhodesia.

After her return to the USA in May 1957 Hooper continued to be active in her opposition to apartheid. Settling in San Francisco, Hooper stayed with African-American civil rights activist Ethel Ray Nance, secretary of the San Francisco branch of the NAACP.Letter from Ethel Ray Nance to W. E. B. Du Bois (August 20, ca. 1957): http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b144-i100 By 1958 Hooper had become the unpaid West Coast Representative of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA),"ANNUAL REPORT", American Committee on Africa (June 1, 1959 to May 31, 1960):4 ,http://kora.matrix.msu.edu/files/50/304/32-130-D89-84-al.sff.document.acoa001025.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720004954/http://kora.matrix.msu.edu/files/50/304/32-130-D89-84-al.sff.document.acoa001025.pdf |date=2011-07-20 }} and also served as director of the South Africa Program of ACOA. as well as for its Africa Defense and Aid Fund."1962 Report", American Committee on Africa (1963):6, http://kora.matrix.msu.edu/files/50/304/32-130-AC1-84-al.sff.document.acoa000068.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720004901/http://kora.matrix.msu.edu/files/50/304/32-130-AC1-84-al.sff.document.acoa000068.pdf |date=2011-07-20 }} Among her activities were giving interviews on radio,See, for example, Mary-Louise Hooper interviewed by Byron Bryant, Radio KPFA (Los Angeles, California, September 1957), to hear the interview, "The Continuing Struggle in South Africa", see http://africanactivist.msu.edu/audio.php?objectid=32-12E-D For "The Continuing Struggle in South Africa" on Radio KRFA at 9.45pm, November 11, 1957, see "Radio Highlights", Oakland Tribune (November 11, 1957):18. and television.See, for example, William Winter, "Interview with Mary-Louise Hooper", on ABC television show William Winter Maps the News (San Francisco, CA: June, 1959), http://africanactivist.msu.edu/audio.php?objectid=32-12E-B; and interview with Ed Radenzel at 7.30pm, August 17, 1959, KQED (Channel 9), Oakland Tribune (August 17, 1959):18. Additionally, Hooper raised funds for the South African Defense Fund, which was to pay for the legal defence of those being prosecuted in the Treason Trial, and to support the families of political prisoners. In the middle of 1960 Hooper was credited with raising much of the $50,000 contributed to the South Africa Defense Fund (renamed the Africa Defense and Aid Fund in late 1959).

Hooper spoke frequently on "Human Rights in South Africa" to churches,For example, see "Fellowship Will Hear South Africa Expert", Oakland Tribune (December 2, 1959):A-1, "Southern Alameda Section"; and "Quaker Will Talk on Africa", Los Angeles Times (January 19, 1963):17. and civic organizations, including to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic Club in Pasadena, California on April 20, 1960, on the topic "Africa, a Continent in Turmoil". In a November 1958 speech "South Africa Today" at the YWCA in Pasadena, California, Hooper claimed: "South Africa is the sorest spot on earth in regard to the color problem. People there are treated entirely on the basis of color, both politically, economically, socially and religiously."Mary-Louise Hooper, in Judith Amann, "Book of Passes Controls Freedom", Pasadena Independent (Pasadena, CA) (November 7, 1958):33.

On December 17, 1962, Hooper was the organizer of a picket by the NAACP, the Northern California Committee for Africa, and the Congress of Racial Equality of the Dutch freighter Raki, which had a load of asbestos, hemp, and coffee from South Africa, in San Francisco,"Bias Issue Pickets Let Ship Unload", The Oakland Tribune (December 18, 1962):15.For photo of Hooper picketing, see "Pickets Stall Cargo", Anderson Daily Bulletin (Anderson, IN) (December 17, 1962):22. to draw attention to racial discrimination in the Union of South Africa,The Sun (Baltimore, MD) (December 19, 1962):33. and to encourage the USA to join a United Nations boycott of South African goods."Longshoremen Ordered to Cross Picket Line", Corpus Christi Times (Corpus Christi, TX) (December 18, 1962):8.William Minter and Sylvia Hill,"Anti-Apartheid Solidarity in United States-South Africa Relations: From the Margins to the Mainstream", in The Road to Democracy in South Africa, Vol. 3: International Solidarity, Part II, 758, 766, http://www.noeasyvictories.org/research/sadet_usa.pdf

In late 1964 Hooper moved to New York City to volunteer full-time as ACOA's Program Director for South Africa,"1964 Report", AMERICAN COMMITTEE ON AFRICA (1965):1, http://kora.matrix.msu.edu/files/50/304/32-130-AC3-84-32-130-AC3-84-al.sff.document.acoa000070.pdf and also appeared before the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, where she submitted verified statements of physical and mental torture, signed by South Africans detained under South Africa's 90-day law,"1964 Report", AMERICAN COMMITTEE ON AFRICA (1965):3, http://kora.matrix.msu.edu/files/50/304/32-130-AC3-84-32-130-AC3-84-al.sff.document.acoa000070.pdf which allowed the South African government to arrest and hold anyone "for indefinite detention without trial"."The '90 Day' Law", South Africa Bulletin 3 (June 1965):2, http://kora.matrix.msu.edu/files/50/304/32-130-A9A-84-al.sff.document.acoa000028.pdf

Hooper wrote prolifically on Africa and the issue of apartheid.See for example, Mary-Louise Hooper, "We Shall Not Ride: The Johannesburg Bus Boycott", Africa Today 4:6 (November–December 1957):13–16; Mary-Louise Hooper, "Luthuli, Man of Peace", in Woman's Peace Party, Four Lights: An Adventure in Internationalism 21–22 (Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1961); Mary-Louise Hooper, "The African Struggle for Freedom" (1959), cited in Algernon David Black, The Young Citizens: The Story of the Encampment for Citizenship (Ungar, 1962); Mary-Louise Hooper, "The Ax Falls on the Whites" (1964), and Mary-Louise Hooper, "South Africa: ANC Leaders Hanged", in Africa Today Associates, American Committee on Africa, University of Denver Center on International Race Relations, Africa Today, (1964):10–11 (Indiana University Press, 1969); Mary-Louise Hooper, "Gestapo-Afrikaner Style" (1964). From its inception in October 1964South Africa Bulletin 1 (October 1964):1, http://kora.matrix.msu.edu/files/50/304/32-130-A98-84-al.sff.document.acoa000026.pdf to 1968 Hooper was the editor of the South African Bulletin (renamed Southern Africa Bulletin by March 1968) published by ACOA."1965 Report", American Committee on Africa (1966):4, http://kora.matrix.msu.edu/files/50/304/32-130-D9B-84-32-130-D9B-84-al.sff.document.acoa001043.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720004913/http://kora.matrix.msu.edu/files/50/304/32-130-D9B-84-32-130-D9B-84-al.sff.document.acoa001043.pdf |date=2011-07-20 }}

In December 1965 Hooper organized the Benefit for South African Victims of Apartheid Defense and Aid Fund at Hunter College in New York City on Human Rights Day (December 10), which attracted 3,500 attendees to hear the music of Pete Seeger and South African singer Miriam Makeba,David L. Hostetter, "Movement Matters: American Antiapartheid Activism and the Rise of Multicultural Politics", Ph.D. dissertation, Graduate School of the University of Maryland (2004):57, https://byrdcenter.academia.edu/DavidHostetter/Papers/220331/Movement_Matters_American_Antiapartheid_Activism_and_the_Rise_of_Multicultural_Politics"Hear Martin Luther King Rally on Human Rights Day, December 10", https://archive.today/20120723125040/http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.SFF.DOCUMENT.acoa000279&& as well Martin Luther King Jr., whom Hooper had convinced to speak at the Benefit."1965 Report", American Committee on Africa (1966):3, http://kora.matrix.msu.edu/files/50/304/32-130-D9B-84-32-130-D9B-84-al.sff.document.acoa001043.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720004913/http://kora.matrix.msu.edu/files/50/304/32-130-D9B-84-32-130-D9B-84-al.sff.document.acoa001043.pdf |date=2011-07-20 }} King, in his first major speech on South Africa, spoke against the evils of the apartheid regime (comparing it to Nazi Germany), criticizing US complicity with apartheid, and highlighting the obligations of black Americans to support those opposed to apartheid. King called for economic sanctions against South Africa.David Hostetter, "'An International Alliance of People of All Nations Against Racism': Nonviolence and Solidarity in the Antiapartheid Activism of the American Committee on Africa, 1952–1965", Peace & Change 32:2 (April 2007):134–152.Lewis V. Baldwin, Toward the Beloved Community: Martin Luther King Jr. and South Africa (Pilgrim Press, 1995):48, 210–211.

In June 1966 Hooper helped initiate and organize the Declaration of American Artists Against Apartheid, "We Say No to Apartheid", which sought to prevent cultural contacts with the apartheid regime.George M. Houser, No One Can Stop the Rain: Glimpses of Africa's Liberation Struggle (Pilgrim Press, 1989):276. 65 artists signed the Declaration, including

Joan Baez, Tallulah Bankhead, Harry Belafonte, Saul Bellow, Leonard Bernstein, Victor Borge, Dave Brubeck, Carol Burnett, Diahann Carroll, Paddy Chayefsky, Ossie Davis, Sammy Davis Jr., Ruby Dee, Henry Fonda, John Forsythe, James Garner, Van Heflin, Lena Horne, Langston Hughes, Eartha Kitt, Miriam Makeba, Johnny Mathis, Karl A. Menninger, Burgess Meredith, Arthur Miller, Henry Morgan, Julie Newmar, Edmond O'Brien, Frederick O'Neal, Odetta, Sidney Poitier, John Raitt, Jerome Robbins, Paul Robeson, Pete Seeger, Nina Simone, Ed Sullivan, Eli Wallach, and Poppy Cannon White."AMERICAN COMMITTEE ON AFRICA LAUNCHES ANTI-APARTHEID DECLARATION", South Africa Bulletin 6 (July 1966):2, http://kora.matrix.msu.edu/files/50/304/32-130-F92-84-GMH%20ACOA%20SAB7-66.pdf

With Wendell Foster Hooper was an organizer and spokesman for the Committee of Conscience Against Apartheid,"Wendell Foster", http://africanactivist.msu.edu/image.php?objectid=32-131-327 which by December 1966, had sixty prominent members, including Stokely Carmichael, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Reinhold Niebuhr, Allen Ginsberg, Paddy Chayefsky, and Joan Baez."Apartheid Foes Boycott Two New York Banks", Modesto Bee (Modesto, CA) (December 7, 1966):7. In December 1966 the CCAA urged American banks not to lend money to South Africa, and on December 7, 1966, claimed that in excess of $23 million had been withdrawn from First National City Bank and Chase Manhattan Bank by depositors in protest at their dealings with the South African regime.

In May 1967 Hooper testified before a committee of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights,Marie Louise Hooper, "Testimony of Mrs. Marie Louise Hooper before the Ad Hoc Working Group of Experts of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights", (29 May 1967, New York), http://www.anc.org.za/4928?t=ES%20Reddy{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}William R. Frye, In Whitest Africa: The Dynamics of Apartheid (Prentice-Hall, 1968):57.

Hooper supported the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN), in its efforts to gain independence for Algeria from France, writing Refugee Algerian Students in 1960.Mary-Louise Hooper, Refugee Algerian Students, (Africa Defense and Aid Fund, American Committee on Africa, 1960).

During the Angolan War of Independence, Hooper raised awareness of the struggles and funds for refugees from Angola by speaking and presenting the NBC White Paper documentary Angola: Journey to a War,"Documentary Film on Angola to be Shown", Star-News (Pasadena, CA) (January 23, 1963):20. which was narrated by Chet Huntley.Tom Mascaro, "NBC WHITE PAPER", http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=nbcwhitepap {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101204205405/http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=nbcwhitepap |date=4 December 2010 }}

In 1981 Mary-Louise moved to Klamath Falls, Oregon, to be near her daughter and grandsons. Mary-Louise died in Klamath Falls on August 14, 1987.Ancestry.com. Social Security Death Index. Number: 111-36-7902;Issue State: New York;Issue Date: 1962.

• Other Americas. Kansas City, Mo: Woman's Missionary Society, Church of the Nazarene, 1936.

• "We Shall Not Ride: The Johannesburg Bus Boycott", Africa Today 4:6 (November–December 1957):13–16;
• "The African Struggle for Freedom" (1959), cited in Algernon David Black, The Young Citizens: The Story of the Encampment for Citizenship (Ungar, 1962);
• "Luthuli, Man of Peace", in Woman's Peace Party, Four Lights: An Adventure in Internationalism 21–22 (Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1961);
• "The Axe Falls on the Whites", South Africa Bulletin 1 (October 1964):1, http://kora.matrix.msu.edu/files/50/304/32-130-A98-84-al.sff.document.acoa000026.pdf;
• "South Africa: ANC Leaders Hanged", in Africa Today Associates, American Committee on Africa, University of Denver Center on International Race Relations, Africa Today, (1964):10–11 (Indiana University Press, 1969);
• "Gestapo-Afrikaner Style", Africa Today (1964).

• Mary-Louise Hooper papers, Michigan State University Library, African Activist Archive, Special Collections, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, http://magic.msu.edu/record=b5146444~S39a"Archival Collection Name: Mary-Louise Hooper (papers)", http://africanactivist.msu.edu/archives.php?sort=depous

• Minter, William; Gail Hovey; and Charles Cobb Jr., eds. No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half-Century, 1950–2000. Africa World Press, 2007.

• [http://africanactivist.msu.edu/image.php?objectid=32-131-18D Africa Action biography of Mary-Louise Hooper]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20110720004815/http://kora.matrix.msu.edu/files/50/304/32-130-B6F-84-al.sff.document.acoa000261.pdf About Mary-Louise Hooper, 1961]
• [http://africanactivist.msu.edu/audio.php?objectid=32-12E-D November 1957 Radio Interview with Hooper]
• [http://africanactivist.msu.edu/audio.php?objectid=32-12E-B June 1959 audio of TV interview with Hooper]

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