Edwards Has More Claim on King Than Clinton or Obama, Duke Professor Says.

AScribe Law News Service, January, 2008

Byline: Duke University

DURHAM, N.C., Jan. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- As the Martin Luther King holiday and South Carolina primaries approach, Democratic presidential candidates will continue to make claims on the legacy of King and the Civil Rights movement, but it's not the front-runners whose messages most mirror King's, says a Duke University historian.

"While Senator Obama and Senator Clinton grapple over the memory of Dr. King, neither candidate has taken positions that fit easily under King's mantle," said Timothy Tyson, visiting professor of American Christianity and Southern Culture at Duke's Divinity School. "Ironically, John Edwards' campaign draws much more closely on Dr. King's legacy than either Clinton or Obama."

Tyson is...

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