The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Michigan Senate 80th Birthday Honors
Max Fisher holding his award with Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath, president of the American Hebrew Congregations, and Industrialist Lester Avnot.
Notes and text for Max Fisher's speech to the Detroit Renaissance meeting.
Clips from 1969 articles highlighting Max Fisher's appointment as a Special Advisor to President Nixon.
Chaim Weizmann Portrait
Max Fisher signing the Agreement for the Reconstitution of the newly Reconstituted Jewish Agency for Israel
Special Consultant to the President on Voluntary Action
Max Fisher's biographer, Peter Golden, explains Fisher's lead-by-example fundraising strategy.
Blighted urban housing in Detroit in the 1970s
Milwaukee Journal article entitled "Detroit Refuses to Give Up" about the Detroit Renaissance.
The Detroit Riots of 1967
Renaissance Center
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.
HUD Certificate of Appreciation
Max Fisher in 25 words or less poster.
Peter Cummings remembers Max Fisher's leadership and commitment to Detroit, and on his loyalty to people and causes.