June 6
2000: Clarence “C.J.” Cummings, Jr. is born to Clarence Cummings, Sr., and Savasha Jenkins Cummings. Cummings holds numerous Youth and Junior weightlifting national and world records and competed in the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo (held in 2021).
2020: The famous Red Piano Too Art Gallery on St. Helena Island closes its doors for the final time. The Gullah Geechee Visitors Center and LyBensons Gallery & Studio now occupy the building.
June 7
2020: Around 200 people take part in a march supporting Our Peaceful Protesters and Black Lives Matter from Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park to Beaufort City Hall. The group had been protesting against and marching in protest of the killing of George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, by the police in Minneapolis, Minn.
June 12
2020: Bob Bender, local environmental activist and founder and curator of the Lowcounty Estuarium in Port Royal, dies at home of complications from throat surgeries.
— Compiled by Mike McCombs
