The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Photographs from the Conference on Human Needs in Israel, 1969.
Bob McCabe describes the relationship between Max Fisher and Detroit Mayor Coleman Young.
Jewish Welfare Federation Plaque
Bob McCabe remembers how Max Fisher made the Ren Cen happen.
Construction of Renaissance Center
The inner city neighborhoods in Detroit did not feel the economic growth created by the Detroit Renaissance.
Jewish Statesmanship Award
Correspondence between Max M. Fisher and Judge Sherman C. Finesilver concerning the Rogers Plan.
Edsel Ford claims the name Max Fisher is synonymous with the city of Detroit.
Michigan Senate 80th Birthday Honors
Congratulatory letter from President Bill Clinton to Max Fisher for receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Max Fisher with future Israeli President Ephraim Katzir and Louis Pincus at the Founding Assembly for the Reconstituted JAFI in Jerusalem in 1971.
Congratulatory letter from President Gerald Ford to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Max Fisher with Marjorie, Jane Sherman, and others at the JAFI Assembly in 1990.
The Detroit Riots of 1967
Max Fisher with Leon Dulzin, Joseph Sternstein, Charlotte Jacobson, and Ephraim Evron at the American Assembly for Zionism and Israel in 1981.