Obituary: Jane Morgan Franklin

Jane Morgan Franklin, an internationally known historian and peace activist and a former longtime Montclair resident, died of natural causes on Feb. 23, 2023. She was 88.  Ms. Franklin, of El Cerrito, California, was best known for her scholarship on U.S.-Cuba relations. She was also a leader in the antiwar and social justice movements in the San Francisco Bay area in the 1960s and 1970s, and was targeted by the FBI's secret COINTELPRO program. She advocated for the normalization of relations between Cuba and the United States, and authored two books that were described by linguist Noam Chomsky as 'indispensable for journalists, historians, activists and even American tourists': 'The Cuban Revolution and the United States: A Chronological History' (1992) and 'Cuba and the U.