This prompted a Time cover story on October 6, 1930 (pictured), in which Time said that Fosdick:

Fosdick was the preacher for NBC Blue's National Vespers from 1927 to 1946. Fosdick outspokenly opposed racism and injustice. Ruby Bates credited him with persuading her to testify for the defense in the 1933 retrial of the infamous and racially charged legal case of the Scottsboro Boys, which tried nine black youths