The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Renaissance Center
Max and Marjorie Fisher with Henry Ford II and his wife, Christina, during a trip to Israel in 1972.
Chaim Weizmann Portrait
Bob McCabe describes the relationship between Max Fisher and Detroit Mayor Coleman Young.
Max Fisher with former Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Rabbi Shlomo Goren at the Founding Assembly of the RAFI in June 1971.
Max Fisher presenting an award to Nate Appleman.
Congratulatory letter from Bob Dole to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
1961 United Foundation Torch Drive
New Detroit article
Congratulatory letter from President Bill Clinton to Max Fisher for receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Bob McCabe remembers how Max Fisher made the Ren Cen happen.
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.
Robert Aronson talks about the quiet diplomat.
Louis Pincus addressing the Founding Assembly of the Reconstituted JAFI in June 1971.
Congratulatory letter from President Gerald Ford to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.