Calpurnia’s son in To Kill a Mockingbird is Zeebo.
Zeebo is Calpurnia’s eldest son and an important member of First Purchase African M.E. Church in Maycomb. Like his mother, he can read, a notable accomplishment in the segregated community depicted in the novel. He leads the congregation’s hymns by “lining” them: he reads each line aloud, and the congregation repeats it in song.
Zeebo also works as Maycomb’s garbage collector. He is the person who removes Tim Johnson, the rabid dog that Atticus shoots in one of the novel’s best-known scenes. When Scout and Jem attend Calpurnia’s church, Zeebo welcomes them, even after another church member objects to their presence.
Readers sometimes confuse Zeebo with characters such as Dill, Francis, or Burris because all are young-person names associated with Scout’s world. Zeebo, however, is specifically Calpurnia’s grown son and a leader in her church community.