LeMaistre discusses some efforts to proceed with integration nonviolently. He remembers the Community Relations Service, created in 1964, and a community group that emerged in Birmingham after the violence of 1963 convinced influential whites that it was wiser to desegregate nonviolently rather than resist violently. The Community Relations Service was not above making threats of its own, however; LeMaistre describes an incident when a physically imposing member of the Service flashed a revolver at a group of men planning a lynching. They changed their plans.