The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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In 1984, Max Fisher wrote an article for the Detroit Free Press titled "Believe in a brighter future for Detroit."
Special Consultant to the President on Voluntary Action
The Riverfront development in Detroit, part of the city's Renaissance led by Fisher and Taubman
Detroit Mayor Coleman Young and President Jimmy Carter
Damon Keith explains how Henry Ford and Max Fisher were the leaders in Detroit in bringing the community back together after the Riots.
Groundbreaking on the Riverfront Apartments
Max Fisher and  Zalman Shazar
Max Fisher signing the Agreement for the Reconstitution of the newly Reconstituted Jewish Agency for Israel
Max Fisher Jewish Community Foundation Dedication
Bob McCabe describes his early days as president of Detroit Renaissance.
Christmas shoppers in Detroit in the 1950s
Max M. Fisher at the Scopus Award Dinner with Alan E. Schwartz and President Gerald R. Ford.
A 1966 Detroit Jewish News article titled "Israel is Facing Massive Absorption Job" quotes Max Fisher heavily.
Photographs of Max Fisher and Louis Pincus, the architects of the reconstitution of the Jewish Agency, in Israel in 1964.
Coleman Young amid construction of Detroit's Renaissance Center
Blighted urban housing in Detroit in the 1970s