The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Peter Golden, Max Fisher's biographer, discusses Fisher's influence with President Ford.
Left to Right: Phillip Hart, J.L. Hudson, Jr., Robert P. Griffin, and Max Fisher
A handsome token of appreciation given to Max and Marjorie Fisher from the Jewish Federation of Detroit, of which Max Fisher was president from 1959 to 1964.
Edsel Ford explains why his father, Henry, liked Max Fisher.
The inner city neighborhoods in Detroit did not feel the economic growth created by the Detroit Renaissance.
Left to Right: Dan Lavin, Art Howard, Max Fisher, Abe Green, John Leerie, and Joseph Holtzman take a break for lunch during the 1956 Allied Jewish Campaign.
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.
President Reagan honored Max Fisher with the Presidential Citizen Medal at the White House in 1989.
Detroit's Renaissance Center Article
1999, Michiganian of the Year Award
Jewish Welfare Federation Plaque
Peter Cummings relates Max Fisher's instinct to work behind the scenes.
In 1999 Max Fisher was named a Michiganian of the Year by The Detroit News.
Max Fisher fundraising at the famous annual Fisher Meeting in his home, 1984.
Elie Weisel, Max Fisher and Golda Meir
1994 National Distinguished Leadership Award ceremony program showing Peter Golden and Mary Fisher as guest speakers.