The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Detroit business and community leaders, left to right, Robert Surdam, Henry Ford II, Max Fisher, and Robert McCabe in front of the Renaissance Center, late 1970s.
Detroit Mayor Coleman Young and President Jimmy Carter
Correspondence between Max M. Fisher and Judge Sherman C. Finesilver concerning the Rogers Plan.
The original New Detroit committee. Max Fisher is in the second row, far left.
Max Fisher's biographer, Peter Golden, explains Fisher's lead-by-example fundraising strategy.
Max M. Fisher at the National Distinguished Leadership Award ceremony in 1994.
A photograph of the then four living presidents, signed by each, presented to Max Fisher in 1998, along with a personal letter from Gerald Ford.
Anti-Defamation League Honors
Chaim Weizmann Portrait
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.
Peter Cummings describes what it's like to work with Max Fisher.
In 1984, Max Fisher wrote an article for the Detroit Free Press titled "Believe in a brighter future for Detroit."
Max and Marjorie Fisher with Henry Ford II and his wife, Christina, during a trip to Israel in 1972.
In the Fall of 1971, Henry Ford undertook the largest single building venture in Detroit’s history. The project was the Renaissance Center, also known as “RenCen.”
Peter Golden, Max Fisher's biographer, discusses Fisher's influence with President Ford.