The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Max Fisher, Golda Meir and others
Special Consultant to the President on Voluntary Action
Anti-Defamation League Honors
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.
Damon Keith remembers Max Fisher's courage in standing against the Detroit Police Department after the Riots in 1967.
Groundbreaking for Renaissance Center
Detroit Renaissance Resolution of Appreciation Award
Max Fisher speaking in a UJA fundraising video about the need to support Jewish people around the world.
United Jewish Appeal LBJ Plaque
Congratulatory letter from Alexander Haig to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Tribute to Max Fisher
The Riverfront development in Detroit, part of the city's Renaissance led by Fisher and Taubman
In the Fall of 1971, Henry Ford undertook the largest single building venture in Detroit’s history. The project was the Renaissance Center, also known as “RenCen.”
The inner city neighborhoods in Detroit did not feel the economic growth created by the Detroit Renaissance.
Congratulatory letter from Teddy Kollek to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Photographs from the Conference on Human Needs in Israel, 1969.