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-American culture does not die out. Instead, it has taken root in the other shore of Atlantic and affected with local culture mutually, mixed harmoniously and developed together to form its unique Afro-American culture. This thesis analyzes the reasons why the Afro-American culture has survived from several aspects. Ⅰ.The Origin and Development of Afro-American Culture In fact, the Afro-American culture itself is mixture of African culture, America aboriginal culture and Christianity white people culture and its origin is African black culture. Therefore, we must know African black culture if we want to study the black culture. The black culture is one of the earliest human civilizations made great contribution to culture. The black once built basilica, mansion, and pyramid; developed smelt iron technology; wrote Muslim corpus juris lection; founded developed business and city culture; developed African unique industrial arts and made great contributions to the old Egypt civilization. The Kushi country, the earliest country of the black, which lay in the upriver Nile once conquered by Gippy and became one of Egypt’s provinces. Then they accepted Egyptian religion and management system, studied Egyptian architectural arts, character, workmanship, and mixed their own traditional value of culture with Egyptian culture to make it preserve and carry forward. The black of Kushi became stronger after absorbing the Egyptian culture. Furthermore, in reverse, they conquered Egypt and developed their own phoneticizd letter system, smelting iron technology, religion belief, industrial arts, city culture, foreign trade and commodity economy. The Kushi culture declined at about 400AD. Then it formed the Sudan culture of western Africa which made the economy of these black countries of East African developed and made Sudan the business center of the whole African continent, because of its camel trade in inland and foreign trade on the sea after mastering the smelting iron technology. However, the golden time of African culture ended with the coming of European slave trader. Ⅱ. The Effects of Afro-American Culture The black culture has far-reaching effects both in the world and American culture. There are two aspects about it. One is that the black culture is a jewelly part in the development of American culture because the religion culture of Africa also makes deep effects both in American and Latin American religion cultures. On the other hand, though the black in Europe and Asia are correspondingly less and always cannot form an independent culture community, the European and Asian society provide motivity for their own development by absorbing the excellent component of Africa black culture through culture selection. In addition, the modern American culture is mainly formed by the culture mixture of European white and African black. Comparatively, the main part is European culture, and the African culture is mainly in art and physical culture especially in exoteric art and popular physical culture. Jazz, for example, is a composed rhythm formed voluntarily by the mutual absorbing and effect between black music and the local music. In a word, if there were not art gene of the black, it is hard for us to imagine that America should hold leading status in the world popular culture and what the world popular culture would be. Moreover, the Afro-American played an important role in American history. They actively joined in American Revolutio