Kiah Duggins was returning from visiting her mother, who was undergoing surgery in Kansas, when the civil rights attorney was killed in a plane crash in Washington, D.C this week.

Several people online paid tribute to Kiah Duggins, a 30-year-old civil rights attorney and former Miss Kansas contestant who was identified as one of the 64 people on board the American Airlines ...

Duggins’ family previously told NPR affiliate KMUW that she had been flying back to Washington, D.C., where she worked as an attorney for the Civil Rights Corps, after spending some time in ...

Duggins was Miss Butler County 2014 and 2015, Strong wrote. "The Miss Kansas Organization community, to include our brand ambassadors, board of directors and volunteers, call on our entire state ...

Duggins also had ties to the Miss Kansas Organization. She was named Miss Butler County and was recognized as a top 10 finalist for the pageant in 2014 and 2015.

Duggins, now 30 and a civil rights lawyer, was among the 60 passengers who died Wednesday night on Flight 5342 to Washington D.C.