The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

The Resource Center provides access to a database of photos, video clips, letters, documents, newspaper articles, awards and other archival material. There are several user-friendly ways to search the Resource Center. The “Quick Search” field above offers a keyword search for those who know what they are looking for. Searches can also be filtered by Topic and Type from the pull-down menus to the right. Click on any item on this screen to see more detailed information. On each detail page, click on the Related Resources for additional items of related interest.

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Bar-Ilan Degree
Bob McCabe describes the relationship between Max Fisher and Detroit Mayor Coleman Young.
Letter to Max M. Fisher from Jack J. Spitzer, President of B'nai B'rith International.
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.
Groundbreaking on the Riverfront Apartments
Michigan Senate 80th Birthday Honors
Bill Berman describes Max Fisher's belief that consensus was not "the middle ground," but the process of getting a group to all reach the right decision.
New Detroit article
Max Fisher at his office in the Fisher Building.
United Jewish Appeal LBJ Plaque
Max Fisher and  Zalman Shazar
Max Fisher in 1977
Max M. Fisher prepares to accept the National Distinguished Leadership Award from the American Jewish Committee in 1994.
Peter Golden explains Max Fisher's role negotiating between Meir and Nixon for re-supply to Israel.
President Reagan's Task Force Welcoming Letter
Jane Sherman talks about her father's success in fundraising.