The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Max and his wife Marjorie at the National Distinguished Leadership Award festivities.
Max Fisher "A Man of Our Times"
Damon Keith recalls Max Fisher's wisdom in negotiations with African-American leaders in Detroit and his commitment to the city.
Max Fisher with Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher and President George H. W. Bush outside the White House. Signed, "To Max - I love this shot. Your friend - George Bush"
Max Fisher in meetings with President Ford and staff in the White House in the spring of 1975.
Bob McCabe remembers how Max Fisher made the Ren Cen happen.
Michigan GOP Honors
Photographs from the Conference on Human Needs in Israel, 1969.
Chaim Weizmann Portrait
Correspondence between Max M. Fisher and Judge Sherman C. Finesilver concerning the Rogers Plan.
Max Fisher with Leon Dulzin, Joseph Sternstein, Charlotte Jacobson, and Ephraim Evron at the American Assembly for Zionism and Israel in 1981.
Elie Weisel, Max Fisher and Golda Meir
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.
Christmas shoppers in Detroit in the 1950s
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.
In 1999 Max Fisher was named a Michiganian of the Year by The Detroit News.