The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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"The Gang of Eight" article
Max Fisher speaking to the General Assembly in Philadelphia in 1976.
1990 letter from Max M. Fisher to Secretary of State Jim Baker concerning Middle East peace policy.
Max Fisher with Yitzhak Rabin in 1967.
Michigan Senate 80th Birthday Honors
New Detroit article
Left to Right: Dan Lavin, Art Howard, Max Fisher, Abe Green, John Leerie, and Joseph Holtzman take a break for lunch during the 1956 Allied Jewish Campaign.
Notes and text for Max Fisher's speech to the Detroit Renaissance meeting.
Special Consultant to the President on Voluntary Action
President Reagan's Task Force Welcoming Letter
Milwaukee Journal article entitled "Detroit Refuses to Give Up" about the Detroit Renaissance.
The Detroit Riots of 1967
Max discusses why he had been a successful fund-raiser.
Max M. Fisher with A. Alfred Taubman in the early 1980s
Jewish Agency for Israel leaders Max M. Fisher and Louis Pincus in 1970.
Henry Ford II speaks to a crowd of reporters and well-wishers at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Renaissance Center on a rainy day in Detroit.