Visitors to Lincoln Memorial say America has its flaws but see gains made since March on Washington

Tommie Babbs, 72, looks at the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Washington on Aug. 11, 2023. Babbs, an academic advisor for the State University of New York at Buffalo who served more than three decades in the military, believes progress has been made toward achieving the dream that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. envisioned on the steps of the memorial nearly 60 years ago at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. (AP Photo/Nathan Ellgren)

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By Associated Press

August 25, 2023 at 4:25 AM UTC

Updated on

August 25, 2023 at 8:34 PM UTC

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fencing and construction workers greet visitors to the Lincoln Memorial, signaling that — for the moment — the monument to the nation’s 16th president is a work in progress.

And so is the nation Abraham Lincoln saved and the dream that Martin Luther King Jr. envisioned at its steps nearly 60 years ago at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.