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Whitney is a city in Hill County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,087 at the 2010 census.The city is 3 miles east of Lake Whitney, the site of the very first bass fishing tournament. Organized by the local newspaper, it took place in 1955 with 73 teams participating.
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  • 1. Thousand trails Whitney
    We Shall Overcome is a gospel song which became a protest song and a key anthem of the Civil Rights Movement. The song is most commonly attributed as being lyrically descended from I'll Overcome Some Day, a hymn by Charles Albert Tindley that was first published in 1900.The modern version of the song was first said to have been sung by tobacco workers led by Lucille Simmons during a 1945 strike in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1947, the song was published under the title We Will Overcome in an edition of the People's Songs Bulletin , as a contribution of and with an introduction by Zilphia Horton, then-music director of the Highlander Folk School of Monteagle, Tennessee . Horton said she had learned the song from Simmons, and she considered it to be her favorite song. She taught it to man...
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