The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Max Fisher fundraising at the famous annual Fisher Meeting in his home, 1984.
Jane Sherman talks about her father's motivation to help rebuild Detroit after the 1967 riots.
Max Fisher and George Shultz with Jane Sherman at the Council of Jewish Federations General Assembly in San Francisco in 1990, during which Shultz was presented the Human Rights Award by his longtime friend Fisher.
Max Fisher next to his sculpture at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield.
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.
Mary Fisher on Max's ability to find the solution.
In 1974, the Hadassah Wizo of Canada, a Jewish women's philanthropic organization, inscribed Max Fisher as a governor of the Haifa Community College in Winnipeg.
Coleman Young amid construction of Detroit's Renaissance Center
The original New Detroit committee. Max Fisher is in the second row, far left.
"Detroit Renaissance: A Decade of Progress and A Commitment to the Future," 1981 address by Max M. Fisher, Chairman of the Board, Detroit Renaissance, Inc.
Jewish Welfare Federation Plaque
Robert Aronson reflects on Max Fisher's historic influence on behalf of Israel.
Construction of Renaissance Center
Milwaukee Journal article entitled "Detroit Refuses to Give Up" about the Detroit Renaissance.
Congratulatory letter from President George H.W. Bush to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Max M. Fisher at the National Distinguished Leadership Award ceremony in 1994.