Born in Wichita, civil rights lawyer, who was killed in flight 5342, received posthumous award

Wichita, Kan. (Kwch) – The Urban League of Kansas honors the born in and Burte and civil rights lawyer Kiah Duggins at Dinner and award ceremony on Thursday evening on Thursday evening.

Duggins was one of the 67 people who were On January 29 with the mid-air collision with a flight 5342 by American Airlines from Wichita and a military helicopter near Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, DC was killed

The 30 -year -old Duggin was a lawyer with Civil rights corps. She grew up in Wichita and visited the Wichita East High School. In 2015 she represented the Miss Kansas organization as Miss Butler County. Duggins completed the Harvard Law School after granting her bachelor's degree at Wichita State University. On Thursday, the Urban League Duggins recognizes the emerging leader Award.

In the state of Wichita, she was a co -founder of the Shocker Food and served as an ambassador for diversity and inclusion, said Urban League. In their work as a civil rights

Before the plane crash, Duggin was in Wichita to visit her family when her mother was operated on. In the night of January 29, she was on the way back to Washington, where she worked. With her legal career in the country's capital, the plans included a move later this year, as a legal professor at Howard University, a private, historically black college in Washington, DC, to be

Memories of Duggins and the legacy she built stay with her friends and family. The day after the crash, Larry Strong, Duggin's local pageant when she fought for Miss Kansas and Miss Butler County, touched everything the lawyer of Wichita had achieved in her young life and career and what her intended.

“Such a brilliant future in front of you, such a brilliant future,” said Strong.

The dinner for balance with the posthumous award for Duggins begins at 5:30 p.m. with a reception and a quiet auction from 5:30 p.m. in the ballroom for the Holiday Inn East. The dinner and price shifting program follows at 6:30 p.m.

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