Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, speaks after being endorsed by former Sen. Paul Kirk, D-Mass., not pictured, during a press conference before a campaign stop at Dartmouth College, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016, in Hanover, N.H. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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By Jody Callahan of The Commercial Appeal

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders may visit Memphis on Monday's Martin Luther King holiday, local officials confirmed Thursday night.

Nothing has been announced yet, and the Sanders website makes no mention of a visit here. He is scheduled to stop in Nashville on Jan. 21, according to the Tennessee for Bernie Sanders Facebook site.

But Terri Lee Freeman, president of the National Civil Rights Museum, confirmed that she's heard talk about such a visit.

"We don't have any confirmation yet," Freeman said. "It's being talked about as a possibility."

Local Democratic activist Gale Jones Carson said she'd also heard about a possible visit.

Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton visited here in November, speaking at LeMoyne-Owen College.