The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Christmas shoppers in Detroit in the 1950s
1999, Michiganian of the Year Award
1961 United Foundation Torch Drive
Detroit News on July 15, 1971
Max Fisher in front of the iconic Fisher Building in Detroit, and in his office on the 22nd floor.
The inner city neighborhoods in Detroit did not feel the economic growth created by the Detroit Renaissance.
Max Fisher speaking at the 40th anniversary of the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit at Shaarey Zedek Synagogue in Southfield, Michigan. (L-R) JCC President John H. Shepard, Max Fisher, Executive Director Alvin L. Kushner, and Judge Damon J. Keith.
Bob McCabe describes the relationship between Max Fisher and Detroit Mayor Coleman Young.
Photographs from the Conference on Human Needs in Israel, 1969.
Congratulatory letter from President Ronald Reagan to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
New Detroit article
Correspondence between Max M. Fisher and Judge Sherman C. Finesilver concerning the Rogers Plan.
Mary Fisher on Max's ability to find the solution.
Letter to Max M. Fisher from Moshe Arad, former Israeli Ambassador to the United States.
Max Fisher agreed to serve as Chairman of Detroit Renaissance, a civic organization with the goal of economic growth for Detroit. The directors included dozens of the most recognizable leaders in Detroit's business community including James M. Roche, Chairman of General Motors and Joseph Hudson, Jr., President of Hudson's Department Stores.
Max Fisher's biographer, Peter Golden, explains Fisher's lead-by-example fundraising strategy.