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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The inner city neighborhoods in Detroit did not feel the economic growth created by the Detroit Renaissance.
Max Fisher's biographer, Peter Golden, explains Fisher's lead-by-example fundraising strategy.
Max Fisher, Paul Milstein and Seymour Milstein
Mary Fisher on Max's ability to find the solution.
New Detroit article
Congratulatory letter from George P. Shultz to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Max Fisher at his office in the Fisher Building.
Max Fisher and other Detroit Jewish Welfare Federation Pacesetters in 1965.
Letter from Max M. Fisher to White House Chief of Staff John Sununu concerning U.S. policy toward Jerusalem.
Congratulatory letter from Secretary of State James A. Baker III to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Letter to Max M. Fisher from Moshe Arad, former Israeli Ambassador to the United States.
Bob McCabe describes the relationship between Max Fisher and Detroit Mayor Coleman Young.
Max Fisher with Henry Kissinger in the White House. Signed, "To Max Fisher - With the affection and admiration of his friend - Henry A. Kissinger."
Robert Aronson talks about the quiet diplomat.
Gene Miller relates Max Fisher's legendary fundraising power.
Left to Right: Max M. Fisher, Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, Michigan Governor William Milliken