Along a stretch of Third Avenue in Overtown, historian and activist Marvin Dunn gave one of his searing history lessons about the historically Black neighborhood.

He spoke of how Black people in Miami — like in other parts of South Florida, such as West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale— were pushed to the northwest corner of the city. He spoke of how Overtown used to be the epicenter of Black culture and commerce in Miami. He spoke of how some of those Black men who lived in Overtown were key in the founding of Miami.

Dunn is currently locked in a legal fight with Miami Dade College over the future of a 2.6-acre parcel beside the Freedom Tower in downtown Miami — land eyed for a potential Trump presidential library. Dunn’s “teach-in” in Overtown on Wednesday was to highlight the site’s history and what he argues the community stands to lose if the college moves forward with the land transfer.

As he gave his history lesson to two dozen people about the area, about a mile away President Donald Trump spoke at America’s Business Forum at the Kaseya Center where he touted his economic policies lowering costs across the country and blamed congressional Democrats for the government shutdown.

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Early last month, Dunn filed a lawsuit alleging Miami Dade College did not give “reasonable notice” under Florida’s Sunshine law of a special Sept. 23 meeting called to hand over its Biscayne Boulevard property to the state at no cost. A state board, which included Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, voted to give the 2.6-acre property to Trump’s library foundation. The college called its meeting after a representative of the Florida Cabinet emailed MDC President Madeline Pumariega to say the office “supports the conveyance” of the college’s Biscayne Boulevard property.

The college’s advance notice of the meeting mentioned only “potential real estate transactions,” and did not describe which plot of land was under consideration or the intended purpose of the transaction. A Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge blocked the college from transferring the land last month as the case proceeds. Uthmeier’s office filed a notice of appeal Monday, seeking to overturn a Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge’s ruling.

As part of the injunction, Dunn must post a $150,000 cash bond in less than a week, and he is currently trying to raise funds to do so. Dunn said the injunction is on hold until he pays the bond.

“Some of the most valuable land, if not the most valuable land in the city of Miami, is about to be given away to a politician,” Dunn said. “That’s what’s being lost. I don’t care this parking lot. If Miami Dade College wanted to have that parking lot for next 50 years. So be it. What’s being lost is valuable land to a politician, and I would be just as upset if that politician was Obama, Clinton, Bush, or anybody else. That land belongs to our kids. So I’m no hero, I’m no martyr, I’m just pissed.”

Vanessa Brito, a community activist and co-organizer of the “teach-in,” agreed with Dunn that the secrecy behind the property transfer didn’t allow for a transparent process. She also said the potential library is also a further infringement on the surrounding Black community.

“There is a historic black community that has suffered here for so many years and has been disenfranchised,” she said. “It seems like every time if there’s a bigger, better deal, they’re gonna take it and continue to disenfranchise and push out the Black community even more.”

Dunn said the Overtown that residents know and love may be gone sooner than later, pointing to the encroaching development that will eventually overtake the area. “Who will be living in these buildings? A few Black folks here and there, but not many,” he said. “So Overtown will die. Yes, the Lyric Theater will be there. Mount Zion Church will be there, but the people will be gone.”

Brito said that building the library near the Freedom Tower flies in the face of Miami’s Black and immigrant populations, who’ve helped shaped the city. “So many people from this community walk through the Freedom Tower, and now, that’s also being erased [by] putting up a tower, a library that is going to take away and diminish the history that our history, Miami’s history.”

Cindy Learner, former Pinecrest mayor and co-leader of nonprofit Indivisible Action Team of Miami-Dade, said she is very skeptical that a library would even be built.

“It’s going to be a 60-story Trump Tower on Biscayne Boulevard, and that is the biggest insult of all for it to be positioned adjoining the Freedom Tower and everything that the Freedom Tower has existed and stands for in terms of welcoming immigrants for decades in this community,” she said. “And they’ll probably put a tiny, little presidential library book room on the bottom floor, but it’s for the personal property and the future of the Trump family.”

Miami Herald reporter Claire Heddles contributed to this report.