The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Gerald Ford discusses Max Fisher's effectiveness.
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.
New Detroit article
The Alpha Kappa Psi Civic Award, "For service to country and community and inspiring leadership," presented to Max Fisher in 1970 by the Delta Theta Chapter of the University of Detroit.
The original New Detroit committee. Max Fisher is in the second row, far left.
Jane Sherman talks about her father's motivation to help rebuild Detroit after the 1967 riots.
Max Fisher speaks at the Allied Jewish Campaign fundraising event in 1958.
1961 United Foundation Torch Drive
Max M. Fisher with A. Alfred Taubman in the early 1980s
President Reagan's Task Force Welcoming Letter
Max Fisher with Marjorie, Jane Sherman, and others at the JAFI Assembly in 1990.
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 next to his sculpture at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield.
Robert Aronson reflects on Max Fisher's historic influence on behalf of Israel.
Max and Marjorie Fisher with Henry Ford II and his wife, Christina, during a trip to Israel in 1972.
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.