Editing Cleveland, Tennessee (section)

===20th century===
In 1911 the local chapter of the [[United Daughters of the Confederacy]] erected [[United Daughters of the Confederacy Monument (Cleveland, Tennessee)|a monument]] at the intersection of Ocoee, Broad, and 8th streets. This monument was reportedly the first of its kind in East Tennessee.{{sfn|Snell|1986|pp=298-301}} In 1914, the [[Grand Army of the Republic]] placed a monument in honor of Union soldiers from Bradley County in Fort Hill Cemetery.{{sfn|Snell|1986|pp=301-303}}

In 1918, the [[Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)|Church of God]], a Christian denomination headquartered in Cleveland, established a Bible school that would develop as [[Lee University]]. Cleveland's Chamber of Commerce was established in 1925. On March 21, 1931, the city's form of government was changed from mayor-aldermen to [[city commission government|city commission]].{{sfn|Snell|1986|p=392}}

[[Bob Jones University|Bob Jones College]], a non-denominational Christian college, relocated to Cleveland in 1933 from [[Panama City, Florida]], where it remained until 1947, when it moved to [[Greenville, South Carolina]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bju.edu/about/history.php|title=History of BJU|author=<!--Not stated-->|website=bju.edu|publisher=Bob Jones University|access-date=October 26, 2019}}</ref> The Reverend [[Billy Graham]] attended Bob Jones College in Cleveland for one year beginning in 1936.<ref>{{cite news|last=Graves|first=Brian|date=February 22, 2018|title=Remembering Billy Graham|url=http://clevelandbanner.com/stories/remembering-billy-graham,75024|work=Cleveland Daily Banner|location=Cleveland, Tennessee|access-date=October 26, 2019}}</ref>

Following World War II, several major industries located to the area, and the city entered a period of rapid industrial and economic growth as part of the [[Post–World War II economic expansion]].<ref name=snell /> Major factories constructed in the city during this time included American Uniform Company in 1949, [[Peerless Woolen Mills]] in 1955, Mallory Battery in 1961, [[Olin Corporation]] near Charleston in 1962, and [[Bendix Corporation]] in 1964, as well as a [[Bowater]] paper mill in nearby [[Calhoun, Tennessee|Calhoun]] in 1954.{{sfn|Lillard|1980|p=113-114}} Despite this massive growth in employment, many African American residents of Cleveland and Bradley County moved away as part of the [[Second Great Migration (African American)|Second Great Migration]], and the number of blacks in Cleveland actually declined between 1940 and 1970, while the city's overall population nearly doubled during this time.{{sfn|Snell|1986|p=422}} During this time and afterwards, Cleveland became one of the largest manufacturing hubs in the Southeastern United States, and this economic expansion continued into the 21st century, with additional major factories locating to the area in the 1970s and 1980s.

In 1966 the [[Church of God of Prophecy]], based in Cleveland, established Tomlinson College north of town, which remained in operation until 1992, when it closed.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cogop.org/blog/cogop-update-tomlinson-college/|title=Update- Tomlinson College|author=<!--Not stated-->|date=January 17, 2017|website=cogop.org|publisher=Church of God of Prophecy|access-date=October 26, 2019}}</ref> That same year [[Cleveland High School (Tennessee)|Cleveland High School]] was established and schools in Cleveland and Bradley County were [[School integration in the United States|integrated]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Bowers|first=Larry C.|date=December 16, 2016|title=College Hill in Spotlight|url=http://clevelandbanner.com/stories/collegehillinspotlight,49027|work=Cleveland Daily Banner|location=Cleveland, Tennessee|access-date=October 26, 2019}}</ref> [[Cleveland State Community College]] was established in 1967.<ref>{{cite news|last=Armstrong|first=Christy|date=September 30, 2016|title=CSCC celebration includes tour of first college campus sites|url=http://clevelandbanner.com/stories/cscc-celebration-includes-tour-of-first-college-campus-sites,43574|work=Cleveland Daily Banner|location=Cleveland, Tennessee|access-date=April 4, 2019}}</ref>

In the 1970s and 1980s, the city gained a national reputation for the crime of [[odometer fraud]] after 40 people in Bradley County, including multiple owners of car dealerships, were sent to federal prison for the crime.<ref>{{cite news |last=Vartabedian |first=Ralph |date=February 16, 2000 |title=Odometer Fraud Is Alive and Well in Digital Age |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-feb-16-hw-64677-story.html |work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=October 16, 2017 }}</ref> Cleveland was the subject of a November 1983 ''[[60 Minutes]]'' episode about this crime.<ref>{{cite news|date=December 3, 1983 |title=Tennessee Mayor Hits "60 Minutes"|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36219248/the-tennessean/|page=8-C|work=[[The Tennessean]]|location=Nashville, Tennessee|agency=United Press International|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> The city came to be known as the "Odometer Rollback Capital of the World" to some.<ref>{{cite news |last=Greenfield |first=Steven |date=August 1, 2017|title=Investigative Reporting in Cleveland |url=http://www.chattanoogan.com/2017/8/1/352330/Investigative-Reporting-In-Cleveland.aspx |work=Chattanoogan |location=Chattanooga, TN |access-date=October 16, 2017}}</ref>

Beginning in the 1950s, the city began to gradually expand to the north as a result of most residential and industrial growth taking place there, but prior to 1987, the city limits of Cleveland did not extend west of [[Candies Creek Ridge]].

In 1988, the city began annexing large numbers of adjacent neighborhoods and industrial areas north, northeast, and northwest of the city.<ref>{{cite news|last=Barrett|first=Danny|date=November 30, 1989|title=Local population growth significant|work=Cleveland Daily Banner}}</ref> These major annexations continued until the late 1990s, and led to the city's land area increasing in size from approximately 18 square miles in 1989 to about 29.5 square miles in 2000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clevelandtn.gov/DocumentCenter/View/200|title=Planning Area and Region|author=<!--Not stated-->|date=May 2011|website=clevelandtn.gov|publisher=Cleveland Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization|access-date=October 26, 2019}}</ref> As a result of this growth, the downtown business district is now geographically located in the southern part of the city.<ref name="citymap" />