H. Elaine Lindgren

H. Elaine Lindgren is currently Professor of Sociology at North Dakota State University and has been teaching at the college for over twenty years.  She received her Ph.D. from the University of Missouri in 1970 and her research interests are social change, gender, and citizen participation.  One of her articles concerns a citizen group that fought the construction of a bridge through their residential neighborhood due to the increased traffic and pollution such a structure would bring.  Lindgren studied the group for eight years and her article is one of the few that covers a citizen group-especially over such a long period of time.  Her most famous book is Land in Her Own Name: Women as Homesteaders in North Dakota.

The collection contains materials related to the citizen protest over the construction of a bridge that would connect 12th Avenue North in Fargo with 15th Avenue North in Moorhead, Minnesota.  Include are Lindgren's article-"The Informal-Intermittent Organization: A Vehicle for Successful Citizen Protest"; newspaper clippings documenting the struggle; information on and supplied by the citizen group-Citizens Organized for Residential Protection; manuals and planning guides detailing the bridge and its impact; and the transcripts of two public hearings regarding the bridge. 

Related Collections:

H. Elaine Lindgren research papers, 1977 - 2003 (Mss 292 & Tapes 537-563)
Jon G. and H. Elaine Lindgren Research Papers (Mss 272)
 

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