Over time, millions of Africans were  forcibly removed and enslaved on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.  This enraged the Mist; so, it transformed itself into a hurricane, and whirled  across the Atlantic to the Chesapeake Bay. Settling in the  salt marshes and slave communities along the Chesapeake, the Mist anointed the likes of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, the Colonial Marines, and the Black union soldiers of Unionville , MD  to deliver this message- “Let My People Go.” The rest is history.

The beginning of the 20^th century brought more changes so  The Mist composed another message,  ”Rise Up, Establish your own”. Two former Maryland slaves answered the call. In 1892, John Murphy of Baltimore, righted the sails of the Afro-American newspaper, and plotted its course to Success.

 In 1902, Fred Carr  bought 180 acres of Annapolis beachfront property.  He and his family farmed and created an oasis on the Chesapeake Bay. Carr’s and Sparrow’s Beaches were  where Blacks in the Baltimore-Washington area could find respite from the pain and humiliation of  Jim Crow segregation. 

 In 1948 William  “Little Willie” Adams, a Baltimore businessman, and the Carr  family formed the Carr’s Beach Amusement Company. They developed The Beach, into how it is remembered today, a  multi-faceted amusement park and entertainment venue that showcased nationally and internationally renowned Black musicians that created rock ‘n’ roll and other forms of American dance music in the 1950’s and 60’s.  Ordinary people, record company executives, philanthropists, Wall Street businessmen, politicians, and future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, all got some sand in their shoes at The Beach.

Another consciousness , a very powerful one, started seeping into the souls of the celebrants at Carr’s Beach. This Message in the Mist would not be codified into words until years later by James Brown.