 Except for a brief stay in public housing, they lacked indoor plumbing and were forced to bring in buckets of water multiple times per day.Shipp attended the J. P. Carr School until 1968, when she transferred to Rockdale County High School, where she was one of the first black students, and graduated in 1972.It was expected that she would work in a factory upon graduation, but teachers pushed her to seek scholarships.