Alumni SAGE Society Legacy Oral History Project Blackman attended at Sangamon State University in 1975 at the downtown campus and rarely spent time on the main campus because the only building at that time was Brookens library. He received his Masters in the Public Administration concentration of classes. Blackman participated in the public service internship program and worked in the Office of Manpower in Illinois state government under Governor James Thompson. He currently is the Director of the Century Council in Washington, D.C. See also D2/1/3 Alumni SAGE Society Legacy Oral History Project.

Digital audio file, 62 min., 20 pp. Interview by Mary Caroline Mitchell, 2010 OPEN