The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Detroit business and community leaders, left to right, Robert Surdam, Henry Ford II, Max Fisher, and Robert McCabe in front of the Renaissance Center, late 1970s.
Max Fisher with Marjorie, Jane Sherman, and others at the JAFI Assembly in 1990.
Henry Ford II presents a check to Max M. Fisher and the United Jewish Appeal.
Detroit Mayor Coleman Young and President Jimmy Carter
Damon Keith remembers Max Fisher's courage in standing against the Detroit Police Department after the Riots in 1967.
Photographs from the Conference on Human Needs in Israel, 1969.
A personal letter from Secretary of State George Shultz.
Bill Berman talks about Max Fisher's commitment to finding consensus among groups in the pursuit of the right decision.
Congratulatory letter from President Bill Clinton to Max Fisher for receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Left to Right: Phillip Hart, J.L. Hudson, Jr., Robert P. Griffin, and Max Fisher
Peter Golden offers an enlightening quote about Max Fisher from Ronald Reagan.
Jane Sherman talks about her father's motivation to help rebuild Detroit after the 1967 riots.
Gene Miller calls Max Fisher a Detroit legend.
A handwritten letter to Max M. Fisher from an L.A. Times reader thanking him for his role in negotiating the Rogers Plan.
President Reagan honored Max Fisher with the Presidential Citizen Medal at the White House in 1989.