The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Max Fisher presenting an award to Nate Appleman.
Detroit's Renaissance Center Article
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.
Max Fisher, Yigal Allon and Yosef Tekoah
Congratulatory letter from Secretary of State James A. Baker III to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
New Detroit article
Jane Sherman talks about her father's success in fundraising.
HUD Certificate of Appreciation
A handwritten letter to Max M. Fisher from an L.A. Times reader thanking him for his role in negotiating the Rogers Plan.
Notes and text for Max Fisher's speech to the Detroit Renaissance meeting.
Peter Golden explains Max Fisher's role negotiating between Meir and Nixon for re-supply to Israel.
Jewish Agency for Israel leaders Max M. Fisher and Louis Pincus in 1970.
The Detroit Riots of 1967
The Riverfront development in Detroit, part of the city's Renaissance led by Fisher and Taubman
Christmas shoppers in Detroit in the 1950s
Bob McCabe discusses Max Fisher's key role in the Detroit Renaissance, his leadership and his ability to build consensus.