The modern civil rights movement formed in the years between the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 and the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965. The movement was a broad-based and multifaceted campaign to remove the legal forms of political, economic, and social discrimination against African Americans and other people of color. It was characterized by nonviolent forms of protest and civil disobedience but often met with organized violence and intimidation. Nonetheless, the decade witnessed dramatic achievements in the quest for civil rights and equality and notable successes in the effort to dismantle the segregationist Jim Crow laws.