The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Congratulatory letter from Secretary of State James A. Baker III to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Bob McCabe describes the relationship between Max Fisher and Detroit Mayor Coleman Young.
Letters congratulating Max Fisher on his 1971 "What Can We Do for Detroit?" speech.
Groundbreaking on the Riverfront Apartments
Max Fisher, Yigal Allon and Yosef Tekoah
Damon Keith remembers Max Fisher's courage in standing against the Detroit Police Department after the Riots in 1967.
Groundbreaking for Renaissance Center
Max M. Fisher with A. Alfred Taubman in the early 1980s
Gerald Ford recalls Max Fisher's effective fundraising.
Max Fisher speaking at the 40th anniversary of the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit at Shaarey Zedek Synagogue in Southfield, Michigan. (L-R) JCC President John H. Shepard, Max Fisher, Executive Director Alvin L. Kushner, and Judge Damon J. Keith.
Left to Right: Phillip Hart, J.L. Hudson, Jr., Robert P. Griffin, and Max Fisher
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.
Tribute to Max Fisher
Congratulatory letter from Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Max and Marjorie Fisher with Henry Ford II and his wife, Christina, during a trip to Israel in 1972.
Renaissance Center and Riverfront