The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Left to Right: Phillip Hart, J.L. Hudson, Jr., Robert P. Griffin, and Max Fisher
Bob McCabe remembers how Max Fisher made the Ren Cen happen.
HUD Certificate of Appreciation
Detroit Mayor Coleman Young and President Jimmy Carter
Milwaukee Journal article entitled "Detroit Refuses to Give Up" about the Detroit Renaissance.
Left to Right: Dan Lavin, Art Howard, Max Fisher, Abe Green, John Leerie, and Joseph Holtzman take a break for lunch during the 1956 Allied Jewish Campaign.
Max M. Fisher prepares to accept the National Distinguished Leadership Award from the American Jewish Committee in 1994.
New Detroit article
Detroit Renaissance Resolution of Appreciation Award
Max Fisher with Yitzhak Rabin in 1967.
Chaim Weizmann Portrait
Max Fisher signing the Agreement for the Reconstitution of the newly Reconstituted Jewish Agency for Israel
In 1984, Max Fisher wrote an article for the Detroit Free Press titled "Believe in a brighter future for Detroit."
Anti-Defamation League Honors
Max M. Fisher with A. Alfred Taubman in the early 1980s