The white dolls made for young American girls and the representations they convey go along with the history of white supremacy and racism in the US. But, between 1840 and 1940, nameless African-American women made black dolls out of cloth for their children, or for the white children they took care of, as acts of pride and resistance. The extraordinary Neff Collection of 200 Black Dolls, displayed and published for the first time in 2015, tells this unique story, which mingles intimacy and politics, art, childhood, and femininity. Like Dolls I’ll Rise is a film about dolls, made with dolls, archives, and the voices of yesterday and today, in the service of women’s history and the history of Black American girls.