Demetria Edwards, a Lake Village lawyer, sends photos of the formal renaming Saturday of what had been Confederate Street in Lake Village for the late Sgt. Thomas Armour Jr., a Lake Village Vietnam veteran.

Edwards, who is also a pastor, led the drive to rename Confederate Street, whose residents all happened to be black.

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