In 2002, the late Wayne K. Curry, the first Black Prince George’s County executive, dipped into his campaign treasury to hire a well-known national election lawyer to sue the state of Maryland over its legislative redistricting plan.

Curry in particular targeted the portion of Gov. Parris N. Glendening’s legislative map that kept the district of then-Senate president Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. (D) partially in Prince George’s, even though Miller lived in Calvert County. Part of that was personal pique – Curry and Miller simply couldn’t stand each other.

But there was a broader principle involved. Curry, plain and simple, did not think that a majority-Black county should have a state Senate delegation that was majority-white. At the time, the county had four white senators and three Black senators.

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