The actions and ideas of everyday people can be difficult to recover. Sometimes, government reports, legal documents, and media accounts were all that remained to tell the story of protests or incidents of civil unrest. In other cases, social movements have come to be defined by the work of a few key leaders. You can help write a different kind of story. When you share your stories, photographs, documents, and other material on this website, you send important messages to the future. You make sure that the actions and ideas of Baltimoreans becomes part of the official memory of the Baltimore Uprising.