The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Bob McCabe describes the relationship between Max Fisher and Detroit Mayor Coleman Young.
Max Fisher's retirement speech from United Brands
Louis Pincus addressing the Founding Assembly of the Reconstituted JAFI in June 1971.
Groundbreaking for Renaissance Center
Max Fisher agrees to serve as Chairman of New Detroit during a meeting at McGregor Conference Center on the Campus of Wayne State University.
In 1988, Max Fisher was awarded this elaborate Shield of Zion by the American Zionist Federation of Los Angeles.
Congratulatory letter from President Ronald Reagan to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Max Fisher's biographer, Peter Golden, details Fisher's extensive experience as a highly successful fundraiser.
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 original New Detroit committee. Max Fisher is in the second row, far left.
Groundbreaking on the Riverfront Apartments
Max Fisher with Yitzhak Rabin in 1967.
HUD Certificate of Appreciation
Congratulatory letter from Alexander Haig to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Max Fisher in meetings with President Ford and staff in the White House in the spring of 1975.
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.