The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Peter Cummings remembers Max Fisher's leadership and commitment to Detroit, and on his loyalty to people and causes.
Max Fisher next to his sculpture at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield.
Left to Right: Thomas A. Murphy (Chairman, General Motors), Max M. Fisher, Robert E. McCabe (President, Detroit Renaissance), A. Alfred Taubman, Frederick C. Matthaei, Jr.
Congratulatory letter from Henry Kissinger to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Notes and text for Max Fisher's speech to the Detroit Renaissance meeting.
Renaissance Center
Congratulatory letter from Brian Kott, President of the Detroit Chapter of the AJC, to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award.
United Jewish Appeal LBJ Plaque
Peter Golden, Max Fisher's biographer, on Fisher's role as conduit in deals between US and Israel.
Letter from Max M. Fisher to The Texas Jewish Post in support of President Reagan's economic policy.
Detroit Councilman Kenneth Cockrel, who opposed city tax breaks for the development of Riverfront
Left to Right: Phillip Hart, J.L. Hudson, Jr., Robert P. Griffin, and Max Fisher
Max Fisher meeting with Richard Nixon and other leaders, including John Ehrlichman, William Rogers, Rabbi Hershel Schacter, and William Wxler, in the White House in 1970.
Max Fisher, Gerald Ford and other members of the UJA and the State Department signing the contract in the Thomas Jefferson Room of the State Dept. Building.
Congratulatory letter from Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Photographs from the Conference on Human Needs in Israel, 1969.