Episode 4: December 21st to December 27th: Lovers Rock on Top Of The Pops, Britain’s first Black Army Officer and the Walter Rodney Bookshop (fka Bogle L’Ouverture)
Topics Covered:
December 21st 1923: Birth of Connie Mark, community activist and founding president of the Mary Seacole Memorial Association
December 22nd 2013: JLS play their final gig
December 23rd 1957: Birth of Trisha Goddard
December 24th 1964: Death of Claudia Jones
December 25th 1979: Boney M and Janet Kay appear on Top of The Pops Christmas Special
December 26th 1916: Death of George Bemand, first Black officer in the British Army
December 27th 1977: The bookshop Bogle L'Ouverture is attacked
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