How tall is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Martin Luther King Jr.'s listed height was 169 cm (5'7"). He was taller than about 20% of men in the United States.
Where 169 cm sits among men in the United States
Taller than about 20% of men in the United States born in 1929 (average 175.1 cm).
About Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr., born Michael King Jr., was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was born on 15 January 1929 in Atlanta. He was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until 1968, advancing civil rights through nonviolence and sometimes civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws.
King oversaw the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and was the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He helped organize nonviolent protests in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963 and was one of the leaders of the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his I Have a Dream speech. He also helped organize two of the three Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965. The movement achieved legislative gains in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
King stood a listed 169 cm (5'7"). He won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, and in his final years he widened his focus to include poverty and the Vietnam War. He died on 4 April 1968. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977.
Frequently asked
How tall is Martin Luther King Jr. in feet and inches? Martin Luther King Jr. was 5'7" tall, which is 169 cm, 66.5 inches or 1.69 m.
Is Martin Luther King Jr. tall for men in the United States? At 169 cm he was taller than about 20% of men in the United States born in 1929, whose average height is 175.1 cm.
Sources
- Martin Luther King Jr. on Wikipedia — biography and career.
- Martin Luther King Jr. on Wikidata — nationality and dates.
- Martin Luther King Jr. on TMDB — filmography and co-stars.
Heights are as publicly listed, rounded to the nearest centimetre; listed heights for public figures are often self-reported. Biographical details adapted from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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