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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President Reagan honored Max Fisher with the Presidential Citizen Medal at the White House in 1989.
Robert Aronson talks about the quiet diplomat.
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.
Max Fisher speaks at the Allied Jewish Campaign fundraising event in 1958.
Blighted urban housing in Detroit in the 1970s
Max Fisher with Marjorie, Jane Sherman, and others at the JAFI Assembly in 1990.
1960 UJA Overseas Report
Max Fisher "A Man of Our Times"
Max Fisher, Paul Milstein and Seymour Milstein
Max Fisher in meetings with President Ford and staff in the White House in the spring of 1975.
Max Fisher with Yitzhak Rabin in 1967.
An excerpt from The Congressional Record  detailing the $50 million loan to Israel agreement.
Congratulatory letter from Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Detroit Councilman Kenneth Cockrel, who opposed city tax breaks for the development of Riverfront
Left to Right: Phillip Hart, J.L. Hudson, Jr., Robert P. Griffin, and Max Fisher