The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

The Resource Center provides access to a database of photos, video clips, letters, documents, newspaper articles, awards and other archival material. There are several user-friendly ways to search the Resource Center. The “Quick Search” field above offers a keyword search for those who know what they are looking for. Searches can also be filtered by Topic and Type from the pull-down menus to the right. Click on any item on this screen to see more detailed information. On each detail page, click on the Related Resources for additional items of related interest.

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Photographs of Max Fisher and Louis Pincus, the architects of the reconstitution of the Jewish Agency, in Israel in 1964.
1961 United Foundation Torch Drive
Tribute to Max Fisher
Max Fisher in 25 words or less poster.
Peter Cummings remembers Max Fisher's leadership and commitment to Detroit, and on his loyalty to people and causes.
The inner city neighborhoods in Detroit did not feel the economic growth created by the Detroit Renaissance.
Max Fisher in 1977
Max and Marjorie Fisher with Henry Ford II and his wife, Christina, during a trip to Israel in 1972.
Construction of Renaissance Center
Max Fisher next to his sculpture at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield.
Peter Cummings describes what it's like to work with Max Fisher.
Max M. Fisher with A. Alfred Taubman in the early 1980s
1990 letter from Max M. Fisher to Secretary of State Jim Baker concerning Middle East peace policy.
New Detroit article
Max Fisher addressing the final session of the Founding Assembly
Damon Keith remembers Max Fisher's courage in standing against the Detroit Police Department after the Riots in 1967.