The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Letters congratulating Max Fisher on his 1971 "What Can We Do for Detroit?" speech.
Photographs from the Conference on Human Needs in Israel, 1969.
Max Fisher and  Zalman Shazar
Left to Right: Thomas A. Murphy (Chairman, General Motors), Max M. Fisher, Robert E. McCabe (President, Detroit Renaissance), A. Alfred Taubman, Frederick C. Matthaei, Jr.
Abba Eban dinner
Max Fisher's retirement speech from United Brands
American Jewish Committee Human Relations Award
Agreement for the Reconstitution of the Jewish Agency of Israel
Congratulatory letter from Alexander Haig to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Left to Right: Phillip Hart, J.L. Hudson, Jr., Robert P. Griffin, and Max Fisher
Letter from Max M. Fisher to The Texas Jewish Post in support of President Reagan's economic policy.
Congratulatory letter from President Ronald Reagan to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Max Fisher; Former Mayor of Detroit Coleman Young; Former Governor of Michigan William Milliken
Congratulatory letter from Bob Dole to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Bob McCabe explains how the Ren Cen was a catalyst for revitalizing Detroit.
Max Fisher with Leon Dulzin, Joseph Sternstein, Charlotte Jacobson, and Ephraim Evron at the American Assembly for Zionism and Israel in 1981.