The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Max with his daughter Mary at the American Jewish Committee's National Distinguished Leadership Award ceremony.
Groundbreaking for Renaissance Center
Max M. Fisher at the Scopus Award Dinner with Alan E. Schwartz and President Gerald R. Ford.
Congratulatory letter from President Gerald Ford to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Max Fisher speaking to the General Assembly in Philadelphia in 1976.
Max Fisher's biographer, Peter Golden, explains Fisher's lead-by-example fundraising strategy.
Damon Keith remembers Max Fisher's courage in standing against the Detroit Police Department after the Riots in 1967.
Peter Golden explains Max Fisher's role negotiating between Meir and Nixon for re-supply to Israel.
The Riverfront development in Detroit, part of the city's Renaissance led by Fisher and Taubman
Congratulatory letter from President Bill Clinton to Max Fisher for receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Max Fisher with Yitzhak Rabin in 1967.
1999, Michiganian of the Year Award
Max Fisher with future Israeli President Ephraim Katzir and Louis Pincus at the Founding Assembly for the Reconstituted JAFI in Jerusalem in 1971.
Left to Right: Max M. Fisher, Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, Michigan Governor William Milliken
Max Fisher agrees to serve as Chairman of New Detroit during a meeting at McGregor Conference Center on the Campus of Wayne State University.
Congratulatory letter from Alexander Haig to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.