The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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A handwritten letter to Max M. Fisher from an L.A. Times reader thanking him for his role in negotiating the Rogers Plan.
Max Fisher in 1977
Bob McCabe explains how the Ren Cen was a catalyst for revitalizing Detroit.
President Reagan's Task Force Welcoming Letter
Max Fisher fundraising at the famous annual Fisher Meeting in his home, 1984.
Max Fisher with future Israeli President Ephraim Katzir and Louis Pincus at the Founding Assembly for the Reconstituted JAFI in Jerusalem in 1971.
Max Fisher addressing the final session of the Founding Assembly
Max Fisher agrees to serve as Chairman of New Detroit during a meeting at McGregor Conference Center on the Campus of Wayne State University.
Max Fisher poses with a plaque from an article from The Detroit News about his involvement with the renaissance of Detroit.
Max Fisher agreed to serve as Chairman of Detroit Renaissance, a civic organization with the goal of economic growth for Detroit. The directors included dozens of the most recognizable leaders in Detroit's business community including James M. Roche, Chairman of General Motors and Joseph Hudson, Jr., President of Hudson's Department Stores.
President Reagan honored Max Fisher with the Presidential Citizen Medal at the White House in 1989.
Photographs from the Conference on Human Needs in Israel, 1969.
The original New Detroit committee. Max Fisher is in the second row, far left.
Max Fisher; Former Mayor of Detroit Coleman Young; Former Governor of Michigan William Milliken
Max Fisher next to his sculpture at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield.
Al Taubman talks about the key to Max's ability to raise funds.