The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Correspondence between Max M. Fisher and Judge Sherman C. Finesilver concerning the Rogers Plan.
Letter to Max M. Fisher from Moshe Arad, former Israeli Ambassador to the United States.
Max M. Fisher prepares to accept the National Distinguished Leadership Award from the American Jewish Committee in 1994.
Robert Aronson explains that Max Fisher could ask people for money effectively and get what he asked for.
Tribute to Max Fisher
Max and Marjorie Fisher with Henry Ford II and his wife, Christina, during a trip to Israel in 1972.
The inner city neighborhoods in Detroit did not feel the economic growth created by the Detroit Renaissance.
Milwaukee Journal article entitled "Detroit Refuses to Give Up" about the Detroit Renaissance.
A personal letter from Secretary of State George Shultz.
Congratulatory letter from George P. Shultz to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Max M. Fisher at the National Distinguished Leadership Award ceremony in 1994.
Damon Keith explains how Henry Ford and Max Fisher were the leaders in Detroit in bringing the community back together after the Riots.
Max Fisher with former Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Rabbi Shlomo Goren at the Founding Assembly of the RAFI in June 1971.
Congratulatory letter from President George H.W. Bush to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Mary Fisher on Max's ability to find the solution.