American Minister and Civil Rights leader. In the Ralph Keyes book on Height, he mentioned Luther's waxwork measured at 5ft 6.5. Other authors typically described him as being around 5ft 7: "five feet seven inches tall, broad shoulders, muscular neck, tipping the scales at "...173 lbs".
In his autopsy, he was described as a "69 1/2 inches...and weighing approximately 140 pounds"