[1][2][3][4] At age 16 he was the first African American directly elected student member of the Montgomery County, Maryland board of education.
[6][7][8] In 1995, McCullough became the first African American directly elected to serve as student member of the Board of Education (SMOB) of Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS).
[21][22][23][6] In adopting the resolution, MCPS became one of the first school systems in the United States to establish a policy protecting LGBTQIA employees from discrimination.
[35] In this role he led a student protest movement resulting in the undergraduate college recognizing Martin Luther King Jr.
[47][48][49] Following the Charlottesville attack, McCullough called for the renaming of Jefferson Davis Highway, the section of Route 1 in Arlington County.