The Freedom Rides

Bespoke Typography and logo design, plus Art Direction on EP cover design for music artist The Freedom Rides.

Based on typography from 1950’s Greyhound Bus.

Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.