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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:30:00

Texas's first integrated stage performance at a public university happened here in 1956, five years before the Freedom Rides. Magoffin Auditorium, at 151 Glory Road on the University of Texas at El Paso campus, has been the Sun City's academic concert hall since 1951. The building was first proposed in 1941 but delayed by the Second World War, finally rising in the modified Bhutanese architectural style that makes UTEP's campus unique in the hemisphere, named for James W. Magoffin, the pioneer ...