Overtown is a neighborhood of Miami, Florida,   Originally called Colored Town in the Jim Crow era of the late 19th through the mid-20th century, the area was once  preeminent and is the historic center for commerce in the black community in Miami and South Florida. Overtown was settled by the black workers who built Miami's railroads and hotels. During segregation, entertainers like Josephine Baker, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong stayed in Overtown after performing in Miami Beach. Mohammed Ali, Martin Luther King and Malcom X graced its establishments, It became known as the Harlem of the South,

Due to its proximity to downtown, and the fact that it is on high ground, the area is being sought out by developers-in a big way. 

Overtown's Living Legacy is the story of what is lost through gentrification when culture and community are not valued.  Three prominent Miami historians shape the narrative of this short documentary  as it traces the critical history of the second oldest neighborhood in Miami. We come to understand the fight to preserve not only the past, but the community that continues to live and work there today.