No longer neglected: Joyce Brown, whose struggle has redefined the rights of the homeless
This article is part of NeglectedA series of necrologists on extraordinary people whose deaths, starting from 1851, have not been reported on time.Joyce Brown's New York minute lasted longer than most. Secretary of the past, Brown became homeless in 1986 and began to camp on a heating grid on the second Avenue and the 65th Street in Manhattan.About a year before being taken from the city's officials, involuntarily engaged in a psychiatric hospital - where it was declared a mind of mind - and with data force. Brown, who was better known as Billie Boggs, was the first homeless man to become at the center of the recently expanded initiative of the mayor I. Koch to face the growing visibility of the homeless and the not treated mental illness.But, as he would have said later in the int...