The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Congratulatory letter from George P. Shultz to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Blighted urban housing in Detroit in the 1970s
Operation Exodus Campaign Inaugural meeting
The original New Detroit committee. Max Fisher is in the second row, far left.
The Alpha Kappa Psi Civic Award, "For service to country and community and inspiring leadership," presented to Max Fisher in 1970 by the Delta Theta Chapter of the University of Detroit.
Left to Right: Max M. Fisher, Louis Hamburger, Edward C. Levy, Israeli Ambassador to U.S. Itzhak Rabin, and Samuel Hamburger during the Jewish Welfare Federation Pacesetters Meeting at the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel in Detroit.
Henry Ford II speaks to a crowd of reporters and well-wishers at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Renaissance Center on a rainy day in Detroit.
Abba Eban dinner
Construction of Renaissance Center
The inner city neighborhoods in Detroit did not feel the economic growth created by the Detroit Renaissance.
Elie Weisel, Max Fisher and Golda Meir
Max Fisher with Leon Dulzin, Joseph Sternstein, Charlotte Jacobson, and Ephraim Evron at the American Assembly for Zionism and Israel in 1981.
Max Fisher fundraising at the famous annual Fisher Meeting in his home, 1984.
Max Fisher signing the Agreement for the Reconstitution of the newly Reconstituted Jewish Agency for Israel
Groundbreaking on the Riverfront Apartments
Damon Keith explains how Henry Ford and Max Fisher were the leaders in Detroit in bringing the community back together after the Riots.