Claude McKay is one of the forerunners of the Harlem Renaissance movement which emerged in the 1920s and continued through the 1930s. He is best known for his radical poetry. He represents the spokesman of black people. His poetry refers to revolutionary black identity. His racial poetry centers mainly on radicalism. When one explores what McKay introduces in his poetry, one discovers his attitude towards violence, revolution, resistance and rebellion against the immense persecution and racism in America. By closely examining several examples of McKay's racial poems, this study attempts to demonstrate how he utilizes poetry to "urge the multitude toward the brink / of freer worlds" (McKay's "We Who Revolt" Complete Poems 208-209). Adopting the sociological approach, the study examines the poems in their cultural, political and societal context in order to shed light on the position of the black community in the American society and illuminate the conflicts between blacks and whites in America at the times of the poems' composition