Editing Toledo, Ohio (section)

===20th century===
[[File:Cherry Street Bridge, Toledo, Ohio, 1920 - DPLA - 42bb05e85ef62b5ed18fc16d4f23b342.jpg|thumb|Downtown Toledo in 1920, including the then-recently completed [[Martin Luther King Bridge (Toledo, Ohio)|Cherry Street Bridge]]]]
In the 1920s, Toledo had one of the highest rates of industrial growth in the United States.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.toledosattic.org/essays/culthistory/92-abstracts/culthistory/116-ess-toledotopics |title=Toledo Topics: Life at the Top in Jazz Age Toledo |first=Timothy |last=Messer-Kruse |work=[[Toledo's Attic]] |location=Toledo |access-date=May 5, 2020 |archive-date=August 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805053002/https://toledosattic.org/essays/culthistory/92-abstracts/culthistory/116-ess-toledotopics |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Toledo continued to expand in population and industry, but because of its dependence on manufacturing, the city was hit hard by the [[Great Depression]]. Many large-scale [[Works Progress Administration]] projects were constructed to re-employ citizens in the 1930s. Some of these include the amphitheater and aquarium at the [[Toledo Zoo]] and a major expansion to the [[Toledo Museum of Art]].

[[File:Toledo Streetcar.jpg|thumb|A streetcar in Toledo, 1949]]
The postwar job boom and [[Second Great Migration (African American)|Great Migration]] brought thousands of [[African Americans]] to Toledo to work in industrial jobs, where they had previously been denied. Due to [[redlining]], many of them settled along Dorr Street, which, during the 1950s and 1960s was lined with flourishing black-owned businesses and homes. [[Desegregation in the United States|Desegregation]], a failed [[urban renewal]] project, and the construction of [[I-75]] displaced those residents and left behind a struggling community with minimal resources, even as it also drew more established, middle-class people, white and black, out of center cities for newer housing.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.toledoblade.com/local/2015/04/26/Poor-decisions-accelerated-decline/stories/20150425181 |title=Downtown Toledo: What went wrong? |website=Toledo Blade |access-date=May 6, 2020 |archive-date=January 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116185148/https://www.toledoblade.com/local/2015/04/26/Poor-decisions-accelerated-decline/stories/20150425181 |url-status=live }}</ref> The city rebounded, but the slump of American manufacturing in the second half of the 20th century during industrial restructuring cost many jobs.

By the 1980s, Toledo had a depressed economy.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wessner |first1=Charles |title=Rebuilding Ohio's Innovation Economy |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK158814/ |publisher=National Academies Press (US) |access-date=December 4, 2019 |language=en |date=2013 |archive-date=August 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220813015132/http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK158814/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The destruction of many buildings downtown, along with several failed business ventures in housing in the core, which led to a reverse city-suburb wealth problem common in small cities with land to spare.