Robert McCullough--Civil rights sit-in protester dies at 64

ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) ˜ Robert McCullough, who led a group of black students in a landmark 1961 civil rights protest, choosing to serve jail time on a chain gang for the crime of sitting at a whites-only lunch counter, has died. He was 64.

McCullough died Monday, Robinson Funeral Home spokesman Samuel Reid said. He did not give a cause of death.

McCullough, along with eight other black students from Friendship Junior College, gained widespread attention when they used the"jail, no bail" technique after they were arrested in February 1961.