http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._A._Criswell
Neither mentions, references Chandler Davidson's Race and Class in Texas Politics, Criswell's ties to the John Birch Society through the Hunt Brothers, nor Curtis Freeman's easily googled masterpiece on Criswell's race baiting " chigger and chiggerow" address to the 56 Joint Session of the S.C. Legislature, which wiki misdates as 53.
It does however have an interesting laying on of hands anecdote about Rick Warren, one which had never registered with me before