Editing Anaheim, California (section)

===Early 20th century===
[[File:Front exterior of Anaheim High School, ca.1900 (CHS-2815).jpg|thumb|Anaheim High School, {{Circa|1900}}]]
During the first half of the 20th century, Anaheim was a massive rural community dominated by orange [[Grove (nature)|groves]] and the [[landowners]] who farmed them. One of the landowners was Bennett Payne Baxter, who owned much land in northeast Anaheim that today is the location of Angel Stadium.<ref name="anaheim2">{{cite web|url=http://www.anaheim.net/article.asp?id=235 |title=City of Anaheim&nbsp;– Parks Division |publisher=Anaheim.net |access-date=October 17, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111124172552/http://www.anaheim.net/article.asp?id=235 |archive-date=November 24, 2011 }}</ref> He came up with many new ideas for irrigating orange groves and shared his ideas with other landowners. He was not only successful, he helped other landowners and businesspeople succeed as well. Ben Baxter and other landowners helped to make Anaheim a thriving rural community before the opening of [[Disneyland]] transformed the city. A street along Edison Park<ref name="anaheim2"/> is named Baxter Street. Also during this time, [[Rudolph Boysen]] served as Anaheim's first Park Superintendent from 1921 to 1950. Boysen created a hybrid berry which [[Walter Knott]] later named the [[boysenberry]], after Rudy Boysen. Boysen Park<ref>{{cite web|url=http://events.ocregister.com/anaheim-ca/venues/show/30634-boysen-park |title=Boysen Park |publisher=Events.ocregister.com |access-date=November 25, 2012}}</ref> in East Anaheim was also named after him.

[[File:Anaheim-1922.jpg|thumb|right|Anaheim in 1922]]
In 1924, [[Ku Klux Klan]] members were elected to the Anaheim City Council on a platform of political reform. Up until that point, the city had been controlled by a long-standing business and civic elite that was mostly [[German American]]. Given their tradition of moderate social drinking, the German Americans did not strongly support [[Prohibition in the United States|prohibition laws]] of the day. The mayor himself was a former saloon keeper. Led by the minister of the First Christian Church, the Klan represented a rising group of politically oriented non-ethnic Germans who denounced the elite as corrupt, undemocratic, and self-serving. The Klansmen aimed to create what they saw as a model, orderly community, one in which prohibition against alcohol would be strictly enforced. At the time, the KKK had about 1,200 members in Orange County. The economic and occupational profile of the pro and anti-Klan groups shows the two were similar and about equally prosperous. Klan members were Protestants, as were the majority of their opponents; however, the opposition to the Klan also included many [[Catholic Germans]]. Individuals who joined the Klan had earlier demonstrated a much higher rate of voting and civic activism than did their opponents, and many of the individuals in Orange County who joined the Klan did so out of a sense of civic activism. Upon easily winning the local Anaheim election in April 1924, the Klan representatives promptly fired city employees who were known to be Catholic and replaced them with Klan appointees. The new city council tried to enforce prohibition. After its victory, the Klan chapter held large rallies and initiation ceremonies over the summer.<ref name="Cocoltchos"/>

The opposition to the KKK's hold on Anaheim politics organized, bribed a Klansman for their secret membership list, and exposed the Klansmen running in the state primaries, defeating most of the candidates. In 1925, Klan opponents took back local government, and succeeded in a special election in recalling the Klansmen who had been elected in April 1924. The Klan in Anaheim quickly collapsed; its newspaper closed after losing a libel suit, and the minister who led the local Klavern moved to Kansas.<ref name="Cocoltchos">Christopher N. Cocoltchos, "The Invisible Empire and the Search for the Orderly Community: The Ku Klux Klan in Anaheim, California", in Shawn Lay, ed. ''The invisible empire in the West'' (2004), pp. 97–120.</ref>