Former teacher Tyanta "Mr. Tigger" Snow speaks with NBC News' Morgan Chesky about his devastating visit to his former teaching school, Benjamin Franklin Elementary School, in Altadena, California.

Three teachers ... the Altadena school in 1919. “A year after that came the Spanish flu, and the sisters survived that,” Cremer said. She invoked that episode in her school’s history again ...

BUT IN ALTADENA ... into the middle class, allowing them to pass them down and create generational wealth. Hooker said living in this culture shaped who he is today. “Walking to school and ...