The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Max M. Fisher at the Scopus Award Dinner with Alan E. Schwartz and President Gerald R. Ford.
1999, Michiganian of the Year Award
Notes and text for Max Fisher's speech to the Detroit Renaissance meeting.
Letter to Max M. Fisher from Jack J. Spitzer, President of B'nai B'rith International.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Honorary Doctorate
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.
Max Fisher holding his award with Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath, president of the American Hebrew Congregations, and Industrialist Lester Avnot.
Max Fisher and other Detroit Jewish Welfare Federation Pacesetters in 1965.
Max Fisher addressing the final session of the Founding Assembly
Robert Aronson explains that Max Fisher could ask people for money effectively and get what he asked for.
Photographs from the Conference on Human Needs in Israel, 1969.
The inner city neighborhoods in Detroit did not feel the economic growth created by the Detroit Renaissance.
Max Fisher in front of the iconic Fisher Building in Detroit, and in his office on the 22nd floor.
1994 National Distinguished Leadership Award ceremony program showing Peter Golden and Mary Fisher as guest speakers.
In 1999 Max Fisher was named a Michiganian of the Year by The Detroit News.
Bob McCabe remembers how Max Fisher made the Ren Cen happen.