The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Detroit Councilman Kenneth Cockrel, who opposed city tax breaks for the development of Riverfront
Letter from Max M. Fisher to The Texas Jewish Post in support of President Reagan's economic policy.
Congratulatory letter from Secretary of State James A. Baker III to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Left to Right: Thomas A. Murphy (Chairman, General Motors), Max M. Fisher, Robert E. McCabe (President, Detroit Renaissance), A. Alfred Taubman, Frederick C. Matthaei, Jr.
President Reagan's Task Force Welcoming Letter
Left to Right: Phillip Hart, J.L. Hudson, Jr., Robert P. Griffin, and Max Fisher
Bob McCabe describes his early days as president of Detroit Renaissance.
Max Fisher, Golda Meir and others
Max M. Fisher at the Scopus Award Dinner with Alan E. Schwartz and President Gerald R. Ford.
Detroit Renaissance Construction
Detroit business and community leaders, left to right, Robert Surdam, Henry Ford II, Max Fisher, and Robert McCabe in front of the Renaissance Center, late 1970s.
President Reagan honored Max Fisher with the Presidential Citizen Medal at the White House in 1989.
Renaissance Center
Milwaukee Journal article entitled "Detroit Refuses to Give Up" about the Detroit Renaissance.
Peter Cummings describes what it's like to work with Max Fisher.
In 1974, the Hadassah Wizo of Canada, a Jewish women's philanthropic organization, inscribed Max Fisher as a governor of the Haifa Community College in Winnipeg.